Tasmania’s Transport Emission Reduction Plan

The Tasmania government is producing emissions reductions plans. The first plan to be released for public feedback was the transport sector in early 2024.

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Tasmania projects an image of net-zero, 100% renewable energy. In reality, only 42% of all energy used in Tasmania comes from clean energy, the rest come from fossil fuels.

Tasmania emits around 8.5 million tons of carbon dioxide per year, 15.4 tonnes per Tasmanian per year. The Australian average is also 15.4 tonnes per year. Despite our hydropower, Tasmania is no better than the rest of Australia in terms of emissions per person.

90% of Tasmania’s 1.75 million tonnes of transport emissions comes from cars buses trucks and motorcycles.

Key Recommendations to the Draft Transport Emissions Reduction Plan:

  1. As per the CSIROs 2022 Research into EV Uptake set 2030 targets, allowing for a range of scenarios. For example, these may include three to five targets between 20-80% (per CSIRO) of new passenger vehicle sales.

  2. State subsidies will have the greatest impact during the early adoption phase (between now and 2030). Tasmania needs a set of generous incentives for households and businesses to transition to Battery Electricity Vehicles (BEVs), hydrogen fuel cell, and other no emissions vehicles.

    These may include:

    • Continuing and enhancing the discounts and exemptions on state government duties and charges when purchasing BEVs, hydrogen vehicles

    • Rebating state government duties and charges associated with installing new charging or refuelling infrastructure

    • New incentives for commercial operators seeking to connect new charging or refuelling infrastructure

    • Introduction of a means tested subsidy for household and businesses to buy EVs, electric bikes, and other transport decarbonisation enablers.

    • Grants and no interest loans to businesses to upskill workers to build, maintain and sell zero emission transport solutions, including charging and hydrogen refuelling infrastructure.

    • Grants and no interest loans to promote new and existing incentives, such as novated leasing, fringe benefit tax exemption, etc.

  3. State government to extend its 100% fleet target to all Government Business Enterprise Fleets (passenger vehicles and busses), and bring forward the transition date to 2030.

  4. More resourcing to public and active transport infrastructure.