Wealthy people were the first to buy electric vehicles. The current boom risks entrenching inequality
- Written by Kaveh Khalilpour, Associate Professor in Engineering and IT, University of Technology Sydney
Australia is in the midst of an electric vehicle boom. The combined rise of battery electric, plug-in hybrids and conventional hybrid cars is steadily shifting the long-term market dominance of petrol and diesel.
This is good news for reducing transport emissions, but what might it mean for socioeconomic inequality?
Two years ago, we examined more...





