Submissions and Discussion Papers

The AEVA regularly makes submissions to all levels of government in Australia on matters concerning transport and energy policy. This page serves as a repository of submissions we have made in recent years.

2024

October 7th AEVA lodged this submission to the Federal Government's consultation on vehicles to be exempted from the New Vehicle Efficiency Standard (NVES).

July 25th AEVA lodged this submission to the Federal Government's Transport and Infrastructure Net Zero Roadmap consultation.

July 3rd, the WA branch wrote to the state transport minister seeking details on the ineligibility of electric motorcycles under the ZEV rebate scheme. A follow-up meeting was held with a policy advisor on 26th July. The Minister Assisting the Minister for Transport sent this somewhat disappointing reply.

May AEVA lodged this submission to the Climate Change Authority Sectoral Pathways Review.

March AEVA lodged this submission to the House of Representatives Inquiry into the transition to electric vehicles.

February AEVA lodged this short submission to the Federal Government's final round of consultation into the New Vehicle Efficiency Standard (formerly the Fuel Efficiency Standard).

2023

September, AEVA lodged this submission to the Senate Inquiry into Residential Electrification.

May 30th, AEVA lodged this submission in response to the Federal Government's consultation paper on the design of a Fuel Efficiency Standard for Australia.

May 26th, AEVA lodged this submission to the Federal Government's inquiry into acoustic warning systems for electric vehicles.

2022

November, AEVA lodged this submission to an inquiry by the Federal Parliament's Joint Standing Committee on Trade and Investment Growth. The subject of the inquiry was “how trade and investment can support Australia's transition to a green energy superpower”. The submission included a recommendation that Australia aim to reduce its level of oil imports to near zero by 2045, driven by electrification of transport.

October 30th, AEVA lodged a response to the National EV Strategy Consultation Paper. That response can be found here.

In early 2022 the AEVA made a submission to the Australian Building Code standards review in regards to EV charging in strata and multi-dwelling housing complexes.

2021

In February, the federal government released the Future Fuels Strategy (FFS) discussion paper which drew fairly negative responses all round, including our own submission on April 9th.

2020

A review of how road infrastructure was funded was organised by a group called Infrastructure Partnerships Australia and the AEVA made a submission. However, it seemed they only really liked the road user charge bits, and didn't read the rest of the document which contained plenty of qualifiers and conditions around the need to include all road going vehicles...

The SA and Victorian governments attempted to introduce an EV-specific road user charge (late 2020). As these charges single out EVs and not all road-going EVs, our response was pretty unambiguous. An email was sent to all state premiers and treasurers seeking clarification. Responses were recieved from the WA, ACT, NT and TAS governments in the negative, with the SA responding with an explanation for their support for an 'EV Tax', and the VIC treasurer sending us this press release / letter. A response from the QLD and NSW governments was not recieved.

A high court challenge of the Victorian EV road tax by AEVA members in late 2023 was successful, and all state-based schemes, planned or enacted, were since scrapped.

2018

In 2018 the Senate conducted an Inquiry into Electric Vehicles, chaired by then Senator Tim Storer. The detailed findings of the committee are summarised here. And there is an article commenting on the Inquiry here.

The AEVA made several submissions; a general, national overview submission as well as state specific submissions from the ACT, VIC, TAS and SA branches.