Woolworths announces its electric delivery fleet is coming

Woolworths has announced that it will launch 27 new electric vehicles onto the roads of Sydney in coming months, the first stage of a broader plan to make its entire fleet 100 per cent electric-powered by 2030. According to Woolworths, the plan will help it hit its target of reducing transport emissions by 60 per cent and adding 1000 electric trucks to Australian roads.

Elsewhere, there is a push for electric vehicle charging stations to be installed along what is being  billed as Australia’s next major cross-country highway -  a 2,700km stretch of outback road that stretches from Laverton in Western Australia's Goldfields through to Winton in central Queensland. 

And the Climate Council has designed Australia’s first practical framework to help sporting bodies find economically sustainable ways of avoiding sponsorship deals with fossil fuel companies in a move that has been lauded by former Wallaby and high-profile environmental campaigner turned independent senator, David Pocock.

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