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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.
- by Mike Foley
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Electric vehicles
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.
- by Bianca Hall
Future Fund was doing its job, so why change it?
Jim Chalmers is a good treasurer, but he is trying to pull a swifty with his new mandate, writes one reader.
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.
- by David Crowe
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.
- by Nick Toscano
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.
- by Nick Toscano
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.
- by Mike Foley
Opinion
Australian economy
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.
- by David Crowe
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.
- by Mike Foley
Opinion
Political leadership
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.
- by Michelle Grattan
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.
- by Rob Harris
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