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LIVING REIMAGINED:

ALL

CHARGED

UP

The EV revolution revs up in the race to net zero with early

adopters seeking a seamless plug in and drive away option.

Australians have never been shy minuscule in the context of the By singling out apartments, there is
of new technology. Smartphone 15 million registered passenger acknowledgement that steps need to
ownership in 2023 stands at vehicles on our roads and the pace of be taken now to be ready for a future
around 20 million and households transition in the rest of the world. when everybody will want to simply
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currently have on average 22 If Australia is to meet its zero carbon plug in and drive away.
interconnected devices or the targets this marathon will need to be The property industry has been
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equivalent of around 350 million run at sprint pace. Every month car mulling the issue for some time
gadgets. Austrade markets Australia sales figures show that Australians and from October this year will
to the world as a nation of early are making the switch in ever need to comply with an updated
adopters, the incubator for Google greater numbers. In July this year, National Construction Code,
Maps, Wi-Fi, black box flight EVs accounted for 7 per cent of new requiring all new buildings to
recorders and the cochlear implant.
vehicle sales, comprising 6,846 EVs be designed, constructed and
It begs the question then why this and 9,696 hybrids. If the appetite for adequately provisioned to enable
brainy, tech-loving country is a EVs continues to gather momentum the installation of renewable energy
global outlier in the transition the bigger issue is going to be around and EV charging.
to clean, emission free electric the capacity of infrastructure to Mirvac’s transition has already
vehicles. Australia ranks alongside cope with the surge. begun in earnest and a number of
Russia in running the world’s In the foreword to the Federal projects currently in market have
dirtiest cars and while Asia, America Government’s National Electric been provisioned for an all-electric
and Europe lead the charge towards Vehicle Strategy released earlier future. Much of the focus for Mirvac
electric transport, Australia faces this year, Energy Minister Chris National Sustainability Manager
the ignominious prospect of Bowen warned that transport will Simon O’Brien (pictured left)
becoming the dumping ground for be Australia’s largest emitting has been on creating a seamless
high-polluting vehicles.
sector by the end of the decade. The customer experience so that
In 2022 the number of electric Strategy, he wrote, would support charging a car at home will be as
vehicles on Australian roads almost the integration of EVs into work straightforward as charging a phone.
doubled in a year from 44,000 to and homes, including initiatives to
83,000. It’s encouraging but support infrastructure planning and
apartment building design.

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