Why does this campaign matter? Transport is Australia’s third largest source of greenhouse gas emissions. Sydney’s Inner West Council aims to make Council’s own operations carbon neutral by 2025, and for community emissions to reach zero by 2050. While many residents in this Local Government Area would like to see more EVs (including bikes and scooters), we have identified some unique barriers to their uptake. CCBR is working to provide awareness-raising and support for addressing these barriers and facilitating both resident and commercial EV use. Some perceived barriers:
Range anxiety
Infrastructure*
Price**
Lack of information
Lack of motivation
Lack of choice
Supply
Some questions are answered in our downloadable fact sheet:
read our EV FAQ sheet or download PDF
* Inner West Council support strategy
**Federal govt support (tax break)
**NSW govt support (cash rebate)
What you can do
We need your input! We’d love you to share your war stories or EV experiences (even if you suffer from EV envy). Or your ideas, or questions. At any time, if you have something to say about clean transport, please feel free to contact us by email at [email protected]. Join our new Facebook Group: Sustainable Transport for the Inner West for regular updates and discussion.
EV charging across the pavement: How to do it – legally.
If you have an EV and you park on the street outside your house, you might need to run a charging cable from your house across the pavement. To do so legally, you need to get a (free) permit from council. One CCBR member (in Inner West Council) did just that – and here is how he did it.
The CCBR EV working group aims to
Accelerate the displacement of fossil fuel modes of transport by electric vehicles (EVs) in the Inner West area of Sydney
Support community and government initiatives which facilitate EV usage
Ensure equity of access to EV uptake is a key perspective for any strategies.
Although our primary target is fully electric EVs, we also consider alternative transport solutions (hybrids, e-Bikes, scooters, etc).