Transport is Australia's second biggest source of climate pollution, and most of it’s coming from the exhausts of our cars, utes and trucks.
But we can put our vehicle emissions in reverse! Strong fuel efficiency standards now would make cleaner vehicles more available and affordable to more people in Australia and hit the accelerator on taking CO2 off our roads.
Right now the Australian government is asking us in the community for our input on these standards. It's critical that we lend our voices now to make the standards strong enough to clean up our dangerous vehicle pollution.
Make a comment now for strong fuel efficiency standards to be included in an ACF community submission to the Australian government before the Friday 31 May deadline.
What to include in your comment
In your submission, you can mention that you want the standards to:
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Take effect as soon as possible: Have the standards come into effect as soon as possible, which will be mid-2024, so that we reduce transport emissions from light vehicles now.
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Be tough on pollution: Require all new cars sold in Australia to have zero emissions from 2035, which is in line with limiting global heating to a 1.5-degree rise.
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Insure affordability: Ensure that by 2035 all new cars sold in Australia have zero emissions, creating a second-hand market for low-emissions vehicles sooner.
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Be mandatory and rigorous: Legislate the standards, make them mandatory for all manufacturers, and don’t allow accounting tricks like super credits, offsets etc. that stop the genuine reduction of CO2 emissions.
Read more: 'What are fuel efficiency standards?'
Latest Supporters
Please legislate for fuel emissions standards that will reduce vehicle pollution as soon as possible.
Require all new cars sold in Australia to have zero emissions from 2035, which is in line with limiting global heating to a 1.5 degree rise.
Please deliver fuel emission standards now. We need to take immediate action now and keep up with the global standards on this matter. Why would we choose not to implement these laws sooner?
I am disappointed that my budget could not stretch to an electric vehicle when I recently purchased a new car.
I believe that strong emissions standards would have made all the difference.
Please bring back trains. Stop cars from polluting our atmosphere. Save our planet by introducing more efficient vehicles to our roads.
Solar power is the world’s cleanest and most abundant energy source. I believe that all future car transportation in Australia should be solar powered electric vehicles. Join the international waitlist for either the Lightyear 2 from the Netherlands, or the Aptera from California. Both of these vehicles are being made for RHD and coming to Australian roads in the next few years.
Note my post code. The filth from vehicle exhaust can be seen every time I sweep my apartment balcony— unreal!! And the noise from revving car engines and motor bikes adds the additional insult of noise pollution. I can only think there must be a lot of angry men out there who take the opportunity to vent their rage by making as much noise as possible. So you’ve got a small penis— live with it!
Reinstate the Great Nthn Rail from Armidale to Wallangarra/Qld instead of pulling up rails for a trail ride. Est cost $1B, much cheaper than inland rail, backup for coast rail, trucks off road, public transport from Singleton to Brisbane. No brainer. Please consider.
Please adopt a policy of shifting all long and medium distance freight on to rail trnsport, where ever possible.
For all road transport, please adopt the following policies:
Have the new emmisions standards come into effect as soon as possible, which will be mid-2024, so that we reduce transport emissions from light vehicles now.
Require all new cars sold in Australia to have zero emissions from 2035, which is in line with limiting Ensure that by 2035 all new cars sold in Australia have zero emissions, creating a second-hand market for low-emissions vehicles sooner.
Legislate the standards, make them mandatory for all manufacturers, and don’t allow accounting tricks like super credits, offsets etc. that stop the genuine reduction of CO2 emissions.
I strongly support the Albanese government to reduce fuel emissions in either new or old cars. We must do something sooner rather than later.
Climate change from fossil fuel emissions is real. In addition, old second-hand cars and trucks running on the one of the worst diesel fuel in the world. It is damaging our environment, and recently diesel fueled trucks have been connected with certain cancers within several blocks of main traffic routes. We need to conserve and we need to improve.
Use are all.full off.shit the batteries alone have more pollution and the factories that run the power grid system alone make more then anything else l
I write as a concerned community member, a mother of two, as a Councillor with Frankston City Council, and as Vice-Chair of the South East Councils Climate Change Alliance.
I am incredibly passionate about securing a better, cleaner, more affordable and healthier future for my children and their peers, along with the most vulnerable people across our warming world.
There are so many GOOD reasons for the Australian Government to introduce strong fuel efficiency standards with commitment, seriousness and urgency. Our scientists continue to sound the alarm regarding our climate crisis. Our medical practitioners tell us that air pollution is problematic for our health. We know that our dependence upon oil and other fossil fuels limits our capacity to achieve energy freedom and to lower our costs of living.
Please be tough on pollution. Please make it easier for Australians to be able to afford to make wiser choices regarding private (and shared!) vehicles. Please do this soon – we can’t afford to waste more time on this, while the rest of the world moves ahead.
With grateful thanks, and in anticipation….
I find that I always travel with my cars air intake closed due to the awful emissions coming from in front of me. I live near the proposed north east link construction and the truck pollution is intolerable .
Exchange trucks for rail freight —lessen trips— more goods moved for less cost to the environment
That’s great that we’re now on the way to strong fuel efficiency standards – but, good grief, we are way behind the developed world! Please Get Cracking Prime Minister on this important change that will mean new cars have zero emissions – I can’t wait to own one!!! Less pollution to inhale and no extra CO2, methane for our planet to inhale! Then can you please truly get cracking on stopping those fossil fuels at their source – no more coal or gas!!!! (A livable future, how good would that be!)
General and state government should provide more rebate for new EV and EV rego as EV still expensive compare to Europe.
Create a complain line that people can report the vehicle general smoke with text
I write as a concerned citizen of Australia to advocate for fuel efficiency standards.
Fuel efficiency standards should:
Take effect as soon as possible: Have the standards come into effect as soon as possible, which will be mid-2024, so that we reduce transport emissions from light vehicles now.
Be tough on pollution: Require all new cars sold in Australia to have zero emissions from 2035, which is in line with limiting global heating to a 1.5-degree rise.
Insure affordability: Ensure that by 2035 all new cars sold in Australia have zero emissions, creating a second-hand market for low-emissions vehicles sooner.
Be mandatory and rigorous: Legislate the standards, make them mandatory for all manufacturers, and don’t allow accounting tricks like super credits, offsets etc. that stop the genuine reduction of CO2 emissions.