Labor claimed that Australia has research, manufacturing and assembly capacity for electric buses, trucks, and rail, and also for alternative fuels like hydrogen. The Party stated that as part of the transport industry of the future, our industrial capability and world-class tertiary institutions, would be able to support an electric vehicle commercial industry.
The basis of Labor’s strategy is a $57 million investment into R&D and manufacturing of electric transport. This would be broken into $30 million for EV and mobility development, $25m for research into developing parts locally, and benefits for people involved in EV production.
The strategy also extended to batteries and charging infrastructure, promising $2m for a new Sodium-ion battery plant in Geelong. Australia is already producing two die-cast aluminium parts for the Nissan Leaf, being made in Dandenong South in Victoria.
17th May 2019