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Speaker 1: Jersey and Amanda jam Nation.

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Speaker 2: We've been talking on the show this morning about how

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Speaker 2: some councils in Melbourne are going to charge SUVs and

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Speaker 2: large utes more to park because of the space they

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Speaker 2: take up. And I guess what they add to our roads. Well,

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Speaker 2: we're hearing this morning the Prime Minister Anthony Albernizi has

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Speaker 2: announced that EV trucks will be hitting our Sydney roads.

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Speaker 2: To tell us more, Helo, Prime.

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Speaker 1: Ministers get a good to be with you too.

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Speaker 2: So how does this work? EV trucks?

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Speaker 3: What's it?

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Speaker 2: First of all, what's the advantages to us of having

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Speaker 2: EV trucks.

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Speaker 1: Well, it's replacing old, fuel thirsty trucks that are dirty

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Speaker 1: and have not just higher missions of course, but we've

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Speaker 1: all seen big trucks on our streets emitting particulates at

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Speaker 1: the back. These are clean trucks, their emissions free. They

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Speaker 1: will make an enormous difference. We're launching them together with

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Speaker 1: Team Globe Express at Eastern Creek today. We provided a

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Speaker 1: twenty million dollar grant through ARENA at the Australia Renewable

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Speaker 1: Energy Agency to get this project going. As part of

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Speaker 1: we have a Driving the Nation fund and it will

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Speaker 1: make an enormous difference to replace one third of their

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Speaker 1: vehicles that deliver things to supermarkets and deliver a range

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Speaker 1: of goods right around Western Sydney with electric vehicles and

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Speaker 1: cleaner and cheaper to run.

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Speaker 3: Were you concerned us with that lithium ion fire we

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Speaker 3: just had in our news just before these trucks got

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Speaker 3: the same batteries. Is that that seems to be a

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Speaker 3: big concern with these battery powered things.

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Speaker 1: No, these are very safe. They'll reduce air pollution, they'll

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Speaker 1: reduce noise as well. And this is the result of

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Speaker 1: an upgrade at the depot there at Eastern Creek to

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Speaker 1: have ev charging infrastructure in place with a battery storage

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Speaker 1: system that's there from on site solar panels. So this

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Speaker 1: is complete sustainability in action, the power from the sun

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Speaker 1: powering these trucks that will then power around Western Sydney

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Speaker 1: streets making deliveries in a cheaper way but importantly a

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Speaker 1: cleaner way as well.

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Speaker 2: And will the trucks get the same mileage? Like can

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Speaker 2: they go all day and it's be charged at night?

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Speaker 1: Absolutely they can. And because you have the solar panels

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Speaker 1: producing the energy with battery storage, so they can then

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Speaker 1: be charged up overnight or of course some of the

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Speaker 1: deliveries will be done after dark. You will have an

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Speaker 1: extraordinarily successful system. This is an example of government working

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Speaker 1: with business and today I'm so looking forward to the

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Speaker 1: launch there in Western Sydney over there with the local

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Speaker 1: member Ed Music. It's in he's electorate of Chiffley, as

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Speaker 1: well as Chris Bowen of course, another great Western Sydney

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Speaker 1: representative Energy Minister. It's part of We've got one hundred

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Speaker 1: and thirty million dollar investment in electric vehicle fleet projects

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Speaker 1: as part of the scheme, and we're partnering with businesses

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Speaker 1: like Origin, Europeka, Patrick Terminals, Jet Charge, a range of

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Speaker 1: big businesses as well as Global Express in order to

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Speaker 1: deliver it. And the reason why their key on it

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Speaker 1: as well is that it saves the money and so

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Speaker 1: it makes a lot of sense. For the same reason

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Speaker 1: why so many people in Western Sydney have solar panels

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Speaker 1: on their roofs to reduce their energy bills. These trucks

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Speaker 1: will reduce the bills for the companies who are involved.

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Speaker 2: It's quite a turnaround, isn't it. From the twenty nineteen

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Speaker 2: election where our former Prime Minister said that your plans

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Speaker 2: for electric vehicles would steal the weekend.

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Speaker 1: Well exactly, and that was just a scare campaign with

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Speaker 1: no basis, of course, and people know that technology makes

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Speaker 1: a difference to our lives. I'm talking to you on

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Speaker 1: a mobile phone. When I was first elected to Parliament,

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Speaker 1: there wasn't Internet, there weren't emails. The only thing that

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Speaker 1: we had solar really of any substance when I was younger,

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Speaker 1: was a little solar panel in the corner of our

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Speaker 1: calculator pocket caulcul or.

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Speaker 3: You got into Dick Smith and get one of those

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Speaker 3: ones on your hat and a little fan, that's what

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Speaker 3: you did.

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Speaker 1: But world's changing and with that comes advantages, and there's

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Speaker 1: the obvious challenge of climate change that we need to

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Speaker 1: deal with. But it's also good economics because it's cheaper

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Speaker 1: to run because the sun is free. But it also

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Speaker 1: has huge health advantages. We know that from living in

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Speaker 1: a city like Sydney that there's a lot of air

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Speaker 1: pollution around and cleaner vehicles will help with that as well.

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Speaker 3: And speaking of technology, with Congress in the US putting

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Speaker 3: a band on TikToker, are we going to do the

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Speaker 3: same here in Australia?

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Speaker 1: Do you think we'll take advice, but we have no

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Speaker 1: plans to do that. I think you've got to be

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Speaker 1: pretty cautious. You've always got to have national security concerns

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Speaker 1: front and center, but you also need to acknowledge that

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Speaker 1: for a whole lot of people, this provides a way

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Speaker 1: of them communicating. And so we haven't got advice at

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Speaker 1: this stage to do that. We don't use TikTok on

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Speaker 1: government funds, and that is an appropriate measure that we're

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Speaker 1: put in place.

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Speaker 3: Cookie answers come TikTok will we have TikTok taka, as

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Speaker 3: you know, Prime Minister, a segment where we make food

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Speaker 3: from TikTok and eat it. And I was just hoping

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Speaker 3: you would have banned it today.

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Speaker 2: Today's was congealed butter with bacon in it. It looked

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Speaker 2: better in TikTok than it.

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Speaker 1: Was to eat.

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Speaker 3: Don't do it.

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Speaker 1: Don't do it.

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Speaker 3: Unless you consult your cardiologists.

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Speaker 1: Well yeah, no, that's that's just so wrong. Both the combination,

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Speaker 1: just one of them would be wrong. To do both,

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Speaker 1: it's not.

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Speaker 3: It's not right.

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Speaker 1: I say, you've got to leave pass from the PM

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Speaker 1: to not eat it. It's too late.

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Speaker 3: Now it's in the digestive track the album.

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Speaker 1: Oh No, It's going to be worse Lady Today.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, Consequence, good prediction, our Prime Minister, thank you,

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Speaker 3: Thanks guys, thank you