{"id":131768,"date":"2021-12-04T07:25:24","date_gmt":"2021-12-04T15:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/most-australian-households-are-well-positioned-for-electric-vehicles-and-an-emissions-ceiling-would-help"},"modified":"2021-12-04T07:25:24","modified_gmt":"2021-12-04T15:25:24","slug":"most-australian-households-are-well-positioned-for-electric-vehicles-and-an-emissions-ceiling-would-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/most-australian-households-are-well-positioned-for-electric-vehicles-and-an-emissions-ceiling-would-help","title":{"rendered":"Most Australian households are well-positioned for electric vehicles \u2014 and an emissions ceiling would help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/most-australian-households-are-well-positioned-for-electric-vehicles-and-an-emissions-ceiling-would-help2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many people believe Australia\u2019s shift to electric vehicles is stuck in the slow lane \u2013 another strollout, rather than a rollout. But while federal policies are still lacklustre, most Australians themselves are ready for the shift, according to our <a href=\"https:\/\/grattan.edu.au\/report\/grattan-car-plan\/\">recent research<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We found most car-owning households will be able to charge their cars in their garage or driveway. Electric vehicles are also getting more attractive as purchase costs fall and battery range rises.<\/p>\n<p>Australia\u2019s world-beating solar uptake is another plus. Many of our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/environment\/climate-change\/australia-reaches-3-million-households-with-rooftop-solar-20211108-p59721.html\">three million solar households<\/a> would be able to effectively charge their cars for free at daytime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many people believe Australia\u2019s shift to electric vehicles is stuck in the slow lane \u2013 another strollout, rather than a rollout. But while federal policies are still lacklustre, most Australians themselves are ready for the shift, according to our recent research. We found most car-owning households will be able to charge their cars in their [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}