The federal government will press ahead with its plan to legislate tax breaks for plug-in hybrids, despite opposition from the Greens and independent senator David Pocock.
must be part of national electric vehicle policy, including for tax incentives to spur uptake, setting up a fight with the Greens, who say that vehicles burning any petrol should be excluded.
“Public money should be driving the electric vehicle revolution, not giving handouts to petrol cars,” Mr Bandt said, a position backed by independent senator David Pocock.
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