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Penny Nelson recently bought a Toyota Rav 4 hybrid vehicle.

They’re cleaner and greener, so why won’t the government give hybrids tax breaks?

Australians bought 172,696 traditional hybrids – which have a diesel or petrol engine as well as an electric motor – last year, up 76 per cent on 2023.

  • Mike Foley

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The government and opposition will compete in the election campaign over their plans for renewable and nuclear energy.

Five battles that will define Australia’s climate war election

Climate action will play a major role in the federal campaign. The political clash has kicked off over nuclear energy, but it will end in the family home.

  • Mike Foley
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
In Victoria, Ventura’s Ivanhoe depot has been converted to accommodate the state’s largest fleet of zero-emissions buses.

Global warming surged last year, but there is also good news

Confirmation that the world had hit 1.5 degrees of warming last year shocked observers, but innovations in the way we generate, move and use energy are working.

  • Nicholas Osiowy
Donald Trump in 2017, when he lifted an Obama-era policy that curtailed the financing of coal-fired power plants overseas.

Demise of ‘woke’ would make society poorer

Woke seems to have been a pejorative term for having a social conscience, writes one correspondent.

Trump and climate

Why Trump will force Labor to delay 2035 climate target, and the Dutton challenge that follows

“The election of Donald Trump, his statements on climate change and positions on energy policy are likely to have a global impact,” warns Climate Change Authority chair Matt Kean.

  • Mike Foley
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Opposition Leader Peter Dutton with Coalition energy spokesman Ted O’Brien (left) and Nationals leader David Littleproud to launch their nuclear plan in Brisbane last week.

Is Angus Taylor really claiming nuclear power will cut power bills by 44 per cent?

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton and shadow treasurer Angus Taylor have said their nuclear energy plan will cut power bills by 44 per cent. But experts say this cannot add up.

  • Mike Foley
Treasurer Jim Chalmers accused Peter Dutton (above) of economic vandalism because his modelling assumed the economy would be $294 billion smaller than the government plans by 2050.

Folly of Fission Impossible exposed by the fiscal facts

I worked in the nuclear energy business in England in the 1960s and I have monitored disappointment after disappointment for the past 50 years.

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton.

Bowen makes ‘hypocritical’ nuclear claims as Dutton accuses scientists of bias

Energy Minister Chris Bowen says he is happy to take expert advice after the nation’s top science agency had a second go at working out the cost of competing forms of energy.

  • Mike Foley and Paul Sakkal
Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen.

Renewables surge shows Australia can meet ambitious 2035 reductions

The UK has promised to cut emissions by 81 per cent by 2035. The Climate Change Authority is considering how much more we could do.

  • Bianca Hall and Nick O'Malley

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