I like the fact that with both petrol/diesel and electric vehicles around it provides *actual choice* but governments and industry are hell-bent on closing that window ASAP because the cash cow attraction of EV's is beginning to take off.
Australia has now legalised a massive emissions reduction target at federal level and some Australian's states/territories are already legislating to ban the sale of petrol vehicles from somewhere in the 2030 to 2040 area (2035 for the ACT where the Australian federal capital city of Canberra is located).
Currently there's no movement on implementing universal road user charges based on km travelled per year and/or maybe also a weight-based charge. NSW currently has a weight based 'motor vehicle tax' added to the actual rego cost.
The fuel excise (44.2 cents per litre for all petrol and diesel grades used in road transport) is a federal tax, and a universal road user charge to capture usage by EV owners (who don't buy petrol or diesel unless it's a hybrid) is still just a pipedream.
One 'good' thing is that the cost of electricity to charge EV's is not cheap, so EV owners think they are getting a great deal but are just being 'green washed'.
PS. One of the biggest emitters is road transport (much bigger than coal-fired and gas-fired power stations!), basically all diesel, and rail transport (outside of QLD all freight rail is diesel). Nobody is addressing that yet. Then there is marine transport. Once again except for military vessels it's basically all fossil-fueled as well.
