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Jayden Tester

Wallets on wheels: city visitors who use e-scooters more spend more

Shared e-scooters are becoming common across Australia and in major cities around the world. Initial safety concerns about e-scooters left some councils wary, but early results from a research survey shows major benefits from e-scooters for tourists and local economies.

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Rod Oram

50 years on from Stockholm Summit, sustainability can no longer be human-centric

We continue to create a deep, dangerous and widening chasm between the damage we inflict on the Earth, our life-support system, and the actions we take towards achieving true human sustainability in all meanings of that word – ecological, environmental, social, cultural and economic.

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Dr Dilum Dissanayake

eHUBs—Identifying the potential early and late adopters of shared electric mobility hubs

Shared electric mobility hubs, or eHUBs, offer users access to a range of shared electric vehicles on demand.

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Dr Dilum Dissanayake

How cities can drive the electric vehicle revolution | Nature Electronics

Cities are central to increasing the uptake of electric vehicles. A range of situational and contextual factors will influence this process, and cities need to use a variety of mechanisms — including policies and incentives — to drive the necessary change.

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Dr Robin Smit

Greenhouse Gas Emissions Performance of Electric and Fossil-Fueled Passenger Vehicles with Uncertainty Estimates Using a Probabilistic Life-Cycle Assessment

A technology assessment is conducted for battery electric and conventional fossil-fueled passenger vehicles for three Australian scenarios and seven Australian states and territories. This study uses a probabilistic life-cycle assessment (pLCA) to explicitly quantify uncertainty in the LCA inputs and results.

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