Almost half of all Australian drivers are willing to replace their petrol car with an electric vehicle and two in three consider the technology the future of transportation, a new study has found. But despite growing enthusiasm for electric vehicles in Australia some issues are causing motorists to pause purchases, including the high price of … [Read more…]
Almost half of all Australian drivers are willing to replace their petrol car with an electric vehicle and two in three consider the technology the future of transportation, a new study has found. But despite growing enthusiasm for electric vehicles in Australia some issues are causing motorists to pause purchases, including the high price of … [Read more…]
Families in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane are spending more than $500 a week on transport for the first time as new research shows the cost of getting around is taking off. The Australian Automobile Association’s transport affordability index, released on Sunday, shows transport costs have risen faster than inflation, with the greatest price jumps in … [Read more…]
Families in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane are spending more than $500 a week on transport for the first time as new research shows the cost of getting around is taking off. The Australian Automobile Association’s transport affordability index, released on Sunday, shows transport costs have risen faster than inflation, with the greatest price jumps in … [Read more…]
By the end of the decade, Australia’s stockpile of depleted electric vehicle batteries will weigh almost as much as the arch of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Just 10 years later, that figure will rise to 360,000 tonnes of batteries – or more than six times the weight of the steel icon. New research from the … [Read more…]
At least 207 people were killed and 900 injured when two passenger trains collided in Odisha on Friday, according to government officials in the eastern Indian state, in one of India’s worst rail accidents in years. Here are details of some of the worst rail accidents in India in recent decades: June 1981: At least … [Read more…]
Click here to sign up to our free newsletters! Kate Forbes MSP hopes to help get the ‘party train’ back on track. A BID to get a late night Ross-shire ‘party train’ back on track has been given a fresh head of steam by hundreds of locals voicing support in response to our online … [Read more…]
A Geelong man is one of two people found guilty of transporting asbestos without the without the appropriate EPA registration. The man faced the Geelong Magistrates Court alongside another man from Ballarat. Both fined thousands after being nabbed with a trailer load of asbestos in September 2021, when the men were seen removing asbestos from … [Read more…]
Grocery deliveries are set to get greener after supermarket giant Woolworths revealed plans to decommission 3000 diesel trucks and put more than 1200 electric vehicles on the road. The commitment, which will see the company’s entire home delivery fleet go electric by 2030, will also put 27 electric trucks on roads in Sydney over the … [Read more…]
Investment in critical infrastructure is needed to keep up with greater Geelong’s booming population acccording to the regions peak lobby group. The Regional Australia Insitute’s latest migration data lists Geelong as a the second top regional destination in the country and G21 CEO Giulia Baggio says it should be a clarion call to policy makers. … [Read more…]