Overdrive: Hertz gets Polestar EVs; Backlash about fuel standards; BMW keep charging to use features

16/08/2022 31 min
Overdrive: Hertz gets Polestar EVs; Backlash about fuel standards; BMW keep charging to use features

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Episode Synopsis

Hello and welcome to Overdrive, a program that looks at the factors affecting our attitude and actions to motoring and transport.

I’m David Brown

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News (1:06)

1. Hertz offers Polestar electric vehicles
2. BMW expensive subscriptions for car features
3. Industry approach to climate change
4. Need for tax reform

Features
In our feature stories we interview Damien Shaw the managing director of Hertz about their embracing electric vehicles as we drive around in a Polestar 2. (6:32)

And we have a feature that compiles a range of comments about how the automotive industry, academia and the Grattan Institute are embracing change (18:54)

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Originally broadcast on 13 August 2022

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