{"id":1317,"date":"2019-04-05T13:05:20","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T12:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ace-ev.com.au\/?p=1317"},"modified":"2019-04-09T13:09:08","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T12:09:08","slug":"petrol-car-market-can-not-be-sustained-says-motor-trades-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ace-ev.com.au\/petrol-car-market-can-not-be-sustained-says-motor-trades-boss\/","title":{"rendered":"Petrol car market can not be sustained, says motor trades boss \u2013 The Driven"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1317\" class=\"elementor elementor-1317 elementor-bc-flex-widget\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-7f16498 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"7f16498\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-0e7049f\" data-id=\"0e7049f\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-727ee91 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"727ee91\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<header class=\"page-header page-header-simple\"><h3><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/thedriven.io\/2019\/04\/05\/petrol-car-market-can-not-be-sustained-says-motor-trades-boss\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&gt; Read the full article here<\/a><\/strong><\/h3><h1 class=\"entry-title\">Petrol car market can not be sustained, says motor trades boss<\/h1><\/header><section class=\"post-media\"><figure><a class=\"image-popup\" href=\"https:\/\/thedriven.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Carmageddon-New-World-Mobility-Image-7.jpg\"> <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-csco-800 size-csco-800 wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/thedriven.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Carmageddon-New-World-Mobility-Image-7-800x449.jpg\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thedriven.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Carmageddon-New-World-Mobility-Image-7.jpg 800w, https:\/\/thedriven.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Carmageddon-New-World-Mobility-Image-7-320x180.jpg 320w, https:\/\/thedriven.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Carmageddon-New-World-Mobility-Image-7-560x314.jpg 560w, https:\/\/thedriven.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Carmageddon-New-World-Mobility-Image-7-640x359.jpg 640w\" alt=\"Source: MTAQ\" width=\"800\" height=\"449\" data-pagespeed-url-hash=\"3120132278\" \/> <\/a><figcaption>MTAQ chief Brett Dale speaking at a recent symposium on future mobility. Source: MTAQ<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/section><div class=\"post-wrap\"><aside class=\"post-sidebar\"><div class=\"bsb-wrap bsb-default bsb-has-counts bsb-has-total-counts bsb-post-sidebar bsb-mode-php\" data-post-id=\"122404\" data-share-url=\"https:\/\/thedriven.io\/2019\/04\/05\/petrol-car-market-can-not-be-sustained-says-motor-trades-boss\/\"><div class=\"bsb-total\">\u00a0<\/div><\/div><\/aside><div class=\"post-main\"><section class=\"content entry-content\"><p>Amongst the furore in the media this week about whether or not Australia should have a national electric vehicle strategy, one voice in the automotive trades industry has rang loud.<\/p><p>At a tech conference in Brisbane, the chief of the Motor Trades Association of Queensland, Brett Dale \u2013 whose organisation advocates for a range of industries including car dealers, mechanics and service stations \u2013 said the argument to continue support for vehicles with internal combustion engines is sure to weaken over time.<\/p><p data-gtm-vis-first-on-screen-6236702_632=\"11581\" data-gtm-vis-total-visible-time-6236702_632=\"4000\" data-gtm-vis-has-fired-6236702_632=\"1\">\u201cWe\u2019ll have parallel markets for a time but over the longer term there is no argument to sustain [petrol vehicles],\u201d Dale said at the inaugural QODE conference this week.<\/p><p>\u201cNow that\u2019s contradictory to our industry, there\u2019s lots of businesses which depend on the combustion engine, so it\u2019s a challenge.<\/p><p>\u201cBut the reality is that over time there will be less and less need for petrol vehicles,\u201d said Dale, who also recently played host to the MTAQ\u2019s \u2018new world mobility\u2019 expo Carmaggeddon which featured Australian electric vehicle startup <a href=\"https:\/\/ace-ev.com.au\/\">ACE-EV<\/a> last month.<\/p><p>Dale\u2019s comments were made in response to German electric vehicle support company Wirelane\u2019s chief Constantin Schwabb who also spoke at the conference.<\/p><p>Pointing out the substantial commitments already made by legacy carmakers overseas to invest in electric cars, Schwabb says it\u2019s only a matter of time before electric cars are cheaper than petrol, and that in 10 years time electric car sales will overtake that of petrol.<\/p><p data-gtm-vis-first-on-screen-6236702_632=\"6317\" data-gtm-vis-total-visible-time-6236702_632=\"4000\" data-gtm-vis-has-fired-6236702_632=\"1\">\u201cI just came back from the headquarters of Volkswagen, they are about to invest 45 billion euros into the electrification of their entire fleet,\u201d he said.<\/p><p>\u201cVery soon you\u2019ll get to the inflection point where the cost of an electric vehicle will be cheaper than a petrol vehicle, and then market forces take over.\u201d<\/p><p>Indeed, the conversation about electric cars is heating up in Australia, which is a <a href=\"https:\/\/thedriven.io\/2019\/04\/01\/australias-transport-pollution-from-australian-cars-and-trucks-is-soaring\/\">laggard in the transition to clean mobility and reducing levels of transport pollution<\/a> compared to the majority of other developed countries worldwide.<\/p><p>For the first time ever, a federal election has sparked passionate discussion in Australia of how the transition to zero emissions transport can be done.<\/p><p>The Coalition is refusing to implement any kind of strategy to do so until mid-2020, prompting the ALP to promise an electric vehicle strategy should it win the looming federal election, and the Green\u2019s reiterating its proposal to ban new petrol and diesel vehicles entirely by 2030,<\/p><p>This led to a backflip from the ALP on who should bear the onus of meeting an emissions quota, which quickly copped a critique from the Greens, who accused <a href=\"https:\/\/thedriven.io\/2019\/04\/04\/greens-slam-labors-weak-on-the-run-ev-policy-as-alp-backflips-on-car-dealer-emissions\/\">the ALP of writing policy on the run<\/a>.<\/p><p>But despite all the political furore, one thing is certain \u2013 the switch to electric vehicles is already happening overseas and without its own car manufacturing industry, Australia can only but follow, albeit at the moment very slowly.<\/p><p>The danger in the meantime however, is that without the stringent fuel emissions regulations that are now common overseas, Australia could become nothing but a dumping ground for fuel-heavy, high-emissions vehicles.<\/p><\/section><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&gt; Read the full article here Petrol car market can not be sustained, says motor trades boss MTAQ chief Brett Dale speaking at a recent symposium on future mobility. 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