STOP BLOCKING THE ROAD: Call for strong fuel efficiency standards

Strong, effective fuel efficiency standards in Australia would deliver lower fuel bills, more access to cleaner, cheaper electric vehicles, and less pollution.

But the peak body for car manufacturers in Australia has been busted with a secret plan to keep them weak – protecting their profits while selling dirty, fossil fuel powered cars in Australia for decades to come (1).

So let’s tell them to stop blocking the road. Email the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries and their leading members Toyota, Mazda, Mitsubishi, Volkswagen, Honda, Hyundai, Nissan and Volvo today, and show them that Australians want strong fuel efficiency standards ...

Strong, effective fuel efficiency standards in Australia would deliver lower fuel bills, more access to cleaner, cheaper electric vehicles, and less pollution.

But the peak body for car manufacturers in Australia has been busted with a secret plan to keep them weak – protecting their profits while selling dirty, fossil fuel powered cars in Australia for decades to come (1).

So let’s tell them to stop blocking the road. Email the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries and their leading members Toyota, Mazda, Mitsubishi, Volkswagen, Honda, Hyundai, Nissan and Volvo today, and show them that Australians want strong fuel efficiency standards.

To read more about how the Climate Council is campaigning for all forms of clean, efficient and sustainable transport, check out our Transport Policy Package.

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Revealed: Car industry's secret emissions plan would slow electric vehicle uptake

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An open letter to the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries and representatives of Toyota, Mazda, Mitsubishi, Volkswagen, Honda, Hyundai, Nissan and Volvo.

Last year, you collectively sold over 570,000 new cars into the Australian market. Most of those were dirtier and less efficient than the cars your companies sell overseas.

Australians are paying the price for that dirty transport fleet many times over.

We pay at the petrol pump because less efficient cars guzzle more fuel. The average Australian passenger vehicle uses nearly twice as much fuel per 100km than the fleet average in Europe.

We pay in higher prices for the cleanest and most efficient cars. The cheapest electric vehicle available in Australia costs almost $45,000, compared to just $18,000 overseas.

And we pay in rising transport pollution, which is fuelling the climate crisis and harming our health. Transport pollution has grown more than any other sector of our economy in recent decades, and is rising. This pollution is driving worsening climate disasters - extreme floods, fires and heatwaves. Air pollution from cars is also estimated to kill around 1,700 Australians a year.

Introducing strong fuel efficiency standards is the best way to cut costs for Australians and cut our emissions for the future. But you are standing in the way of real change.

Your weak industry-led scheme is designed to protect your profits by maintaining the status quo. If you keep selling dirty, high polluting cars into Australia well into the 2040s, how will we achieve the deep emissions cuts needed this decade to avoid the worst effects of global warming?

And if the vehicle industry doesn’t do its bit towards Australia’s new target of cutting emissions by at least 43% by 2030, which other parts of our economy and community will have to do more?

We call on your companies to come to the table with genuine fuel efficiency standards that can see Australia achieve the deep emissions cuts we need now.

Manufacturers which have a real plan for the EV transition must prove they are serious by joining the call for robust fuel efficiency standards.

Cleaner, cheaper cars for Australians could be just around the corner, if only you’d stop blocking the road.

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