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Government should promote electric cars for Australia’s automobile industry

Innovation ‘key for car makers’, The Age, David Wroe Canberra January 25, 2012  DESPITE facing the ”toughest time of our life” amid slumping exports and job layoffs, Australia’s car industry can survive by modernising and making greener, more high-tech cars with government help, unions said yesterday…

.. Mr Jones said by way of example that the government’s previous Green Car Innovation Fund – which was axed to pay for Queensland flood assistance – had helped the industry transform itself with new models such as hybrid and fuel-efficient
cars.

”In three years, we completely transformed automotive manufacturing in Australia,” he said. ”We were being crucified because we had large cars that were petrol guzzling vehicles and were not good for the environment and people were shifting away from that product in droves.

”Within a space of almost no time at all as a consequence of the Green Car Innovation Fund, General Motors introduced a four-cylinder at its Elizabeth plant.”….
Greens industry spokesman Adam Bandt said the government should replace the Green Car Innovation Fund with an ”electric vehicle fund” of at least $75 million…..
http://theage.drive.com.au/innovation-key-for-car-makers-20120124-1qfos.html

January 25, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | AUSTRALIA - NATIONAL, energy