Australia's renewable energy advocate is investing $2 million to help commercialise a Melbourne-based company's solar-powered, driverless electric vehicle designed for passenger transport and commercial applications.
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| Applied Electric Vehicles prototype of a solar-powered, driverless electric vehicle which is designed for passenger transport and commercial applications. |
The Australian Renewable Energy Agency's (ARENA) funding announcement follows news of the federal government's $350 million clean energy research initiative, which will develop a national strategy to integrate electric vehicle charging stations into the electricity grid.
Read the story from The Age by Mike Foley - “$2m funding for driverless electric vehicle prototype.”
(Such stories bring both joy and despair - joy because it exemplifies the wonderful inventive nature of people; despair, as it illustrates we have not yet broken free from the idea of privately owned vehicles dependent on a publicly provided road network.
Rather than going deeper into the rabbit hole of “more of the same” we should be breaking free of the market, profit-driven system and putting forward ideas that are about people and truly public system, but maybe this is where it starts - Robert McLean)
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