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Jennifer Dudley-Nicholson

FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Car emission rules may be too weak for speedy change | History Defined

Energy Minister Chris Bowen looks inside an electric vehicle at Parliament House in Canberra. (Lukas Coch/AAP PHOTOS)

Australia's car market will meet new rules to cut emissions for three years even if manufacturers make no changes to vehicles, according to new modelling. 

The Electric Vehicle Council made the finding after analysing data from the latest S&P Global Mobility forecast and found that rather than making big changes to the industry, the federal government's proposed vehicle standard could be "too weak". 

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