Transport & travel
Offsetting EV energy at home
Electric vehicles are finally emerging in Australia. A recent Renew study explores to what extent solar PV and energy storage can offset an EV’s grid energy usage and bills.
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Transport & travel
Beyond the EV: reducing transport sector emissions
It’s not all about electric vehicles when it comes to reducing emissions from transport. Cameron Munro looks at where planning, technology and carrot/stick incentives converge.
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Transport & travel
Public transport from day one
One housing estate that’s aiming to address transport from the get-go is the Ginninderry greenfield development in Canberra. About 13 km from the city centre, this is a whole new community of 11,500 homes to be built over the next 40 years, at a rate of about 300 homes per year.
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Transport & travel
Catching the carpooling opportunity
If just 1% of Victorian cars took a passenger to work, there could be 30,000 fewer trips per day. So why aren’t more people carpooling? Bruce Campbell considers what’s needed.
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Transport & travel
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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Transport & travel
EVs and the grid
Can our grid cope with the extra charging load if we all switch to electric vehicles? A recent report by Australian company Evenergi examines the issues.
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Electric vehicles
Early adopters
Bruce Armstrong and Katherine McCann, based in Nedlands and Brentwood in suburban Perth, have been mostly getting around on electric bikes or in Bruce’s Mitsubishi i-MiEV electric car since 2012.
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Transport & travel
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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Buyers guides
Ending the ICE age, An electric vehicle buyers guide
As the world slowly wakes up to the need to electrify personal transport, the range of electric vehicles is starting to ramp up. Lance Turner looks at how Australia is doing in the move away from fossil fuels, and which EVs you can buy now and in the near future.
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Transport & travel
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." - Malcolm McKelvie
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Efficient homes
A winning formula: high-performance house plus EV
Despite the upfront cost premium, opting for a highly efficient, all-electric home with an EV can offer significant economic and environmental benefits. We analyse one example.
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