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Renew 165 out now: Getting climate ready, effective building envelopes, biodiversity impacts, community batteries, EVs on a budget, community eco hub, and more!
Renew 165 is out now! Its features include an in-depth look at the weather systems we face and their potential impacts on our homes and communities, before sharing practical advice and information about how you can keep cool and stay comfortable through the summer. We meet grassroots advocate Shirley
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Biofuel vs battery
John Hermans gives his opinion on the best power source for electric vehicles.
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Renew 157 out now: Indigenous foods, the National Construction Code, Sustainable House Day, EVs for newbies, including buyers guide, and more!
Renew 157 is out, with a special feature on electric vehicles and their future as personal transport, including an EV buyers guide, features on Indigenous foods and invasive species, and more!
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A tipping point: heavy transport goes electric
From tip trucks to rubbish trucks to delivery vehicles to buses, all around the world heavy transport is electrifying. Lance Turner surveys the many trials happening right now in Australia and New Zealand.
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EVs: Electricity Bills, Energy Use & Carbon
This study seeks to explore the potential impact of electric vehicles on household energy usage, electricity bills, and use of the grid.
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Planes, buses, ships and trucks: transport goes electric
Back in Renew 139 we looked at the electrification of commercial and public transport. Lance Turner takes a quick look at what progress has been made since then.
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Going electric with hydronic heating
One year after converting from gas to heat pump hydronic heating, Peter Hormann gives us a full account of the upgrades at his family’s Melbourne home and how they are staying comfy and zero carbon.
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I love to ride my (electric) bicycle
Across the inner suburbs of Australia's major cities there is a growing number of people swapping the car and making an electric bike their vehicle of choice for the daily commute. Two electric bike owners explain why they love them.
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Jumping on the (electric) bandwagon
Electric vehicle case studies: "Every time we filled up our petrol cars, it made me feel uncomfortable to be using fossil fuel, so my wife Janine and I discussed the pros and cons of electric cars and the models available, and in 2014 we decided to buy one." -
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Two wheels good: Electric scooters are here now
Dr Chris Jones, AEVA National Secretary and electric motorbike devotee, explains that there’s a lot more to the electric vehicle scene than just cars.
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All-electric and hydronic: A model of efficiency
There's a lot to learn from this highly insulated and well-sealed renovation in Melbourne, not least how a heat pump is providing both hydronic heating and hot water. Cameron Munro explains the house's modelling-led upgrades and the tweaks made along the way.
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Capital improvements: The path to all-electric
Switching to electric appliances wasn’t really thought of as economically or environmentally beneficial 10 years ago when Ben Elliston’s household started their efficiency improvements, so theirs has been a gradual path to all-electric.
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