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“We cannot support it:” Polestar follows Tesla out of car lobby over Toyota led campaign (thedriven.io)
submitted 8 months ago by trk@aussie.zone to c/australia@aussie.zone
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Tesla announced it had quit the FCAI on Thursday and Polestar followed it up on Friday, saying the FCAI campaign – driven largely by Japanese car makers led by Toyota – is intolerable.

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Tesla and now Polestar’s announcement that they intend to leave the FCAI adds to mounting pressure on CEO Tony Webber who last month came under fire for threatening to run a 2010 anti mining tax style fear campaign against the government’s New Vehicle Efficiency Standard.

The fossil car lobby group CEO claimed that the NVES would cost the entire car-buying public $38 billion in the first five years, which led to the AFR running a story titled “Labor’s new EV-boosting rules will cost $38b, auto group says” followed by Coalition leader Peter Dutton and Nationals Senator Matt Canavan parroting claims that the NVES would see the price of popular vehicles increase by up to $25,000. Claims that have been widely rejected including by the Electric Vehicle Council.

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[-] ajsadauskas@aus.social 1 points 8 months ago

@Baku @Aux Totally agree that there are many places in Australia where public transport isn't up to scratch.

But Roxburgh Park to Epping ain't a good example. It's 23 minutes by bus.

Yes, you could catch a train all the way into the city and all the way out, but the 901 bus is quicker.

[-] Baku@aussie.zone 1 points 8 months ago

That is not what my maps showed, as per the screenshot.

[-] ajsadauskas@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago

It is what the PTV website shows.

And having caught that bus from Tullamarine to Epping, 23 minutes for the segment from Roxburgh Park station to Epping is about right. (Depending on traffic, of course.)

[-] Baku@aussie.zone 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I see the problem. You put in the train stations, I did not. I put in the actual suburbs, and not their train stations.

You get similar results to what I showed if you put in the suburbs and not the train station.

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