Replacing petrol cars with electric vehicles will reduce emissions and costs for families, but we can't miss the opportunity to create secure, high-paying manufacturing jobs here in NSW.
To make sure the transition is sustainable for the long term, and creates local jobs, it is important that the NSW Government also invest in the local industries that support local battery and charger manufacturing, installation, battery refurbishment and electric vehicle maintenance.
NSW can be a leader in building the supporting infrastructure electric vehicles need to thrive, and in training a generation of workers to keep them properly maintained, but we need to act now.
I call on the NSW Government establish a fund to support the development of the local manufacturing, technologies and skills we need to support the electric vehicles industry, to create jobs now and for the long term in NSW.
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