Chief scientist Alan Finkel hits back at electric car doubters

Affordable electric vehicles that can drive up to 600 kilometres on a single charge will help bring a motoring revolution to Australia, predicts Chief Scientist Alan Finkel, in an intervention that defies naysayers of the technology.

In praise of the transport revolution: Chief Scientist Alan Finkel with an electric car. 

In an interview with Fairfax Media, Dr Finkel said the onus was on the federal government to cut greenhouse gas emissions from the transport sector, but predicted electric cars “will be a significant element” of policies considered.

Read Nicole Hasham’s story in The Age - “Chief scientist Alan Finkel hits back at electric car doubters.”

(I repeat, personally owned privately operated cars, electric or otherwise, should not be considered a part of what is needed in an energy restrained future as a method of moving people about. We need, rather, a sophisticated public transit system, which we can build just as soon as we break our addiction to the profit motive and privatisation - Robert McLean)