Comment by Peter Roberts The federal government appears likely to make no effort to support the establishment of electric vehicle manufacturing in Australia following the release of a new report. The report, funded by the Australian Renewable Energy Agency’s Advancing Renewables Programme, looked at the very low level of EV sales in Australia and decided…
The University of NSW and Dutch electric bus company Ebusco have signed a memorandum of understanding.
Scientists at the Australian National University have demonstrated the direct production of hydrogen within solar PV cells, a development that could potentially bring down the cost of renewable hydrogen production. Thirteen researchers, led by Siva Krishna Karuturi and Heping Shen published their results in a paper in Advanced Energy Journal titled “Over 17% Efficiency Stand‐Alone…
Australia’s export gas industry which puts upward pressure on domestic gas prices is starting to falter as the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic continue to ripple across the economy. The Australian LNG Report from EnergyQuest released today shows LNG export shipments in May were 6.4 million tonnes, down from 6.9 Mt in April, with seven…
Three University of Wollongong-led research projects have been awarded close to $1 million funding to develop blockchain and electric powertrain technologies. The grants, through the Australian Research Council’s Linkage Projects scheme, are designed to bring university researchers together with industry partners. Professor Willy Susilo of UOW’s School of Computing and Information Technology received $199,857 for…
The Australian Manufacturing Forum and @AuManufacturing’s campaign to crowd source a new deal plan for manufacturing in Australia has focused on SME views. Today Mark Vassella, managing director and CEO of BlueScope Steel, focuses on trade, energy and infrastructure plus more. The disruption of global supply chains as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic has…
Sydney technology developer Barry Westlake has developed and tested a prototype electric vehicle which overcomes many of the problems first faced more than a century ago by motoring pioneer Ferdinand Porsche. Westlake, director of BAAD Concepts Pty Limited, has developed a fully electric, light weight medium compact vehicle capable of driving over all terrain from…
The transformation of the national electricity market has “progressed at a remarkable pace and scale” over the last year as it moves towards renewables, but security is a critical issue, according to the Energy Security Board.
By Gail Broadbent, PhD candidate Faculty of Science UNSW, and Graciela Metternicht, Professor of Environmental Geography, School of Biological Earth and Environmental Sciences, UNSW A total of 6718 electric vehicles were sold in Australia in 2019. That’s three times as many as in 2018, but it’s still small beer. More than a million fossil-fueled light vehicles…
A first capital raising of approximately $50 million has closed oversubscribed for Sun Cable’s project that plans to export solar PV electricity from the Northern Territory to Singapore. Billionaires Twiggy Forrest and Mike Cannon-Brookes are among investors in on the ground floor of the Australia Singapore Power Link (ASPL) plan to supply the island state…
