Thursday, 18 May 2023

 Sam HIBBINS (Prahran) (14:44): (164) My constituency question is for the Minister for Climate Action. There is a desperate need for EV charging in the Prahran electorate. There is just one station in a public car park. There are none that are being funded through the government’s existing programs. With emissions from transport being the biggest growing source of carbon emissions in Victoria and the skyrocketing cost of petrol adding to the cost of living, this lack of EV charging is a real barrier for the uptake of cleaner, cheaper forms of transport. Many people in Prahran live in apartments or houses without driveways and also rent, so there is a need for more public chargers and also kerbside charging in residential streets, shopping strips and of course chargers in existing apartment buildings. So I ask: will the government act to increase the number of EV chargers in the Prahran electorate?