The growing electric car industry is calling on Canberra policy makers to develop a comprehensive plan for the rollout of a national public charging network.
Professor Iftekhar Ahmed says further infrastructure must be implemented and electrical networks fortified to allow the popular uptake of the electric car and the potential boost to the nation’s renewable energy system.
Electric car advocate Sylvia Wilson says Australians have ‘range anxiety’ about electric cars dying before reaching a charging facility and don’t realise that electric cars can be charged in more locations than their fossil fueled counterparts.