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A new ‘essentials’ range of the BYD Dolphin hatchback will retail for $29,990 plus on road costs.

Chinese giant brings first EV for under $30,000 to Australia

BYD’s cheap electric vehicles coincide with government-backed low-cost finance loans for clean car buyers.

  • Mike Foley

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Shalik Kharel says he’s saving more than $80 a week in petrol costs alone after buying an electric vehicle.

Police, nurses and firefighters to be enticed to buy electric vehicles

Essential workers and low and middle-income earners will be enticed with government-subsidised cheaper loans to take up electric vehicles, including second-hand EVs.

  • Bianca Hall
Minister for Industry and Science Ed Husic: “We want this to be a country that makes things.”

Tech, energy deals top the list for manufacturing fund’s first $5 billion

The government made the payment to the National Reconstruction Fund to mark the first meeting of its board and the start of talks over its investment mandate.

  • David Crowe
Once completed, the Waratah Super Battery in NSW will rank among the biggest grid-scale batteries anywhere in the world

BlackRock raises $500m to build Australia’s biggest battery

The world’s biggest fund manager, BlackRock, has raised more than $500 million with co-investors to fund a giant battery in Australia.

  • Nick Toscano
Brookfield has outlined ambitious plans to ramp up investments in renewables and storage to make Origin Energy the nation’s largest clean power supplier.

Brookfield lifts renewables spend to $30b in Origin takeover push

Origin Energy’s suitor has told the competition regulator that a takeover offers the ASX-listed target the best option to fund its ambitious transition to green energy.

  • Nick Toscano
Chevron’s carbon capture and storage project at the Gorgon LNG site in WA has fallen short of targets.

Safeguard mechanism tipped to spur carbon capture for fossil fuels

Experts predict the government’s climate policy will boost investor confidence in controversial carbon capture technology, but industry is calling for public subsidies.

  • Mike Foley
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Shrill critics of Chalmers’ essay are missing the point

The Treasurer’s essay is being painted as a repudiation of the free market and a wholesale rejection of “supply-side” economics, when it is no such thing.

  • David Crowe
Australia’s emissions fell 0.8 per cent in the 12 months to September last year.

Renewable energy drives fall in Australia’s carbon pollution

Renewable electricity ensured Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions went down, but booming LNG exports and burping cows are a handbrake on further falls.

  • Mike Foley
Prime Minister Scott Morrison visits the Toyota Hydrogen Centre in Altona.

Wedged by his own policy choices, PM’s ‘can-do capitalism’ is interventionism in disguise

Despite the dangers of campaigning on electric cars, the PM attempted just such a thing this week. His derision of Bill Shorten’s 2019 policies made perfect grenades for Labor.

  • Michelle Grattan
Prime Minister Scott Morrison visits the Toyota Hydrogen Centre in Altona today.

New $1 billion fund to back Australian companies to develop low-emissions technology

Scott Morrison says the fund is designed to fill a gap in the Australian market, where small technology-focused start-ups are often considered difficult to finance.

  • Rob Harris

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