Tim Storer, left, at SEA Electric.
A range of submitters are presenting their cases to the Senate Select Committee on Electric Vehicles in Melbourne on August 31.
Committee chairman and independent South Australian senator Tim Storer says he was looking forward to hearing from some interesting people, which included representatives of the Australian Logistics Council which deals with major and national companies in the heavy vehicle, freight and logistics supply chain areas.
Representatives from SEA Electric are also due to speak after Storer and other committee members visited its Dandenong workshop on August 30 to learn more about the conversion of trucks, vans and minibuses to battery electric drivetrains.
The committee also toured the Nissan Casting Plant in Dandenong on August 30 in the lead up to the committee’s third public hearing in Melbourne. The Nissan plant supplies parts for the all-electric Nissan Leaf.
The committee is charged with reporting on the potential economic, environmental and social benefits of widespread EV uptake in Australia, and measures to attract EV manufacturing, supply and value chain activities to Australia.
Some of the talk at the Melbourne hearing is around establishing targets to help people with EV uptake and the costs and benefits of getting heavy EVs.
One speaker says the EV model choice is “not quite there yet”. More heavy EVs should also feature in the “green vehicle guide”.
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