Electric car market won't spark without subsidies to reduce emissions, encourage consumers, says rent-seeking Nissan chairman

Australia's electric car market was unlikely to take off beyond its current tiny niche unless the federal government introduced subsidies to encourage consumers, says Nissan's global chairman Carlos Ghosn.

Electric car market won't spark without subsidies to reduce emissions, encourage consumers, says rent-seeking Nissan chairman 1496657040833

Electric car market won't spark without subsidies to reduce emissions, encourage consumers, says rent-seeking Nissan chairman 1496657040833

Despite record sales of new cars, just 219 of the 1.2 million new vehicles sold in Australia in 2016 were electric, even that was a 90 per cent drop from the previous year. Battery powered cars represented only 0.0018 per cent of the total market.

Mr Ghosn argued the market wouldn't grow without a public policy that said: "We favour zero emissions cars - usually electric and plug in hybrids - and a subsidy to consumers to encourage them to buy these cars".

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Electric car market won't spark without subsidies to reduce emissions, encourage consumers, says rent-seeking Nissan chairman

Electric car market won't spark without subsidies to reduce emissions, encourage consumers, says rent-seeking Nissan chairman

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