Curious. Does your government have anything in place like the CAFE standards here in the US?
"CAFE: Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards are regulations in the United States, first enacted by the United States Congress in 1975, after the 1973–74 Arab Oil Embargo, to improve the average fuel economy of cars and light trucks (trucks, vans and sport utility vehicles) produced for sale in the United States."
The fuel economy stuff has been around for ages, and now they have just introduced new fleet emissions standards “to incentivise carmakers to import more low and zero emissions vehicles” as part of the grand scheme to achieve net zero CO2.
Under the “new vehicle efficiency standard” the 2025 emissions target for light commercial vehicles will be 210 grams per km, and 110 grams by 2029. What you guys call trucks - your Ford and Chevvy pickups - would fall into this category. Here this category is dominated by dual cabs like the Toyota Hilux and Ford Rangers. The vast majority of which use diesel engines.
The plan set emissions targets for 2025 of 141 grams of CO2 per kilometre for passenger vehicles.
We can hardly wait…. Woohooo…. More Chinese crap quality electric cars will fill our streets. Theres already a glut of them. I am convinced the Chinese strategy is to dump as many of them here as possible at super low prices to destroy the competition from Euro, SE Asian (mostly Korea) and Japanese manufacturers who will then pull out of Australia leaving only the Chinese cars - and then jack their prices way up.
Im worried that Mazda as one of the smaller manufacturers might be an early casualty. You should see the Chinese MG’s they are so close to a blatant copy of the Mazdas its not funny.
The Chinese manufacturers have virtually no backup here, no real dealer network and their “service” centres are basically provided by quick and dirty deals with the chain store car service centres like KMart tyre and auto centres….
Parts are never available and they’ve not invested much in training etc. In 3-5 years time people who bought these Chinesium junk piles are going to really regret it as the gloss wears off and the problems start to compound.