Making the Shift to Battery Electric Vehicles before 2050
The webinar will discuss the need to shift the Australian vehicle fleet from internal combustion engine (ICE) to battery electric vehicles (BEVs) before 2050 and the associated technical and policy changes that would deliver economic benefits. This is in order to meet national targets for net zero emissions in the transport sector as per the Paris Accord on climate change.
Discussion will include:
Background on the need to change
Timing and availability of BEVs
Costs and economic impacts of the transition to BEVs
Hydrogen fuel cell (FCEV) alternatives
The additional capabilities of BEVs compared with ICE vehicles
Challenges and opportunities for the electricity grid
Fast charging, parking and transport infrastructure needs
Speakers
Dr Scott Elaurant
Principal, Six Cats Consulting
Dr Scott Elaurant is an engineer-economist with 35 years experience in traffic engineering, transport planning and transport economics. He previously worked for Queensland Transport and Main Roads and Jacobs Engineering in senior transport planning roles. He now consults through Six Cats Consulting on infrastructure planning studies and business cases.
Michael Roth
Transport Policy Consultant
Michael Roth is an engineer and psychologist specialising in development of transport policy. He has 25 years experience delivering transport policies and projects, previously for VLC, RACQ, Queensland Transport and Queensland Rail. Michael’s work has focused on decarbonisation, electrification, micromobility, parking, accessibility, behaviour change and safety research, policy development and advocacy.
Dr Scott Elaurant is a Principal Consultant with 34 years’ experience in infrastructure planning, transport planning, road design and economics. Scott worked as Jacobs’ Adelaide Transport Planning lead for 13 years and in Federal and State government agencies. This included major road and public transport projects in Australia, New Zealand and South East Asia. Scott’s economics expertise is in feasibility assessment and strategy development on a wide range of projects, including transport, water supply, bioenergy, nuclear energy inquiry for SA, and employment projections.
