Back to the fuel guzzlers? Coalition plans to end EV tax breaks would hobble the clean transport transition

By Anna Mortimore, Lecturer, Griffith Business School, Griffith University

If elected, the Coalition has pledged to end Labor’s substantial tax break for new zero- or low-emissions vehicles.

This, combined with an earlier promise to roll back new fuel efficiency standards, would successfully slow the transition to hybrid and battery electric vehicles (EVs).

The Albanese government pitched these tax breaks as a way to make EVs cheaper to buy and more competitive with internal…

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