Fuelling future passenger vehicle use in Australia

Jamison Group Report - Fuelling future passenger vehicle use in Australia

The Jamison Group, in their second independent report Fuelling future passenger vehicle use in Australia, highlight the challenges facing Australia including a potential risk that oil imports will grow from current levels of 55 per cent of total oil consumed to more than 80 per cent over the next decade. This will have an adverse impact on Australia's balance of trade.

The Jamison Group outline possible strategies to reduce Australia's transport oil dependence by adopting alternative fuels and technologies such as hybrids and electric cars fuelled by renewable energy. The Jamison Group warn that if nothing is done to develop new transport energy sources now, we will fall further behind leaving Australian motorists exposed to further volatility in oil prices.

The Jamison Group report Fuelling future passenger vehicle use in Australia is comprised of three reports:

• Executive Summary
• An Alternative Fuel and Technology Mix for Australia for Passenger Vehicles in Australia: Options and Scenarios and
• The Electric Vehicles Revolution

Read the Fuelling future passenger vehicle use in Australia report (PDF 3MB/133 pages)

Read the Media Release

A Roadmap for Alternative Fuels in Australia: Ending our Dependence on Oil

The first Jamison Group report provides Australia with a road map to reducing its dependence on oil. The Jamison Group was established by the NRMA Motoring & Services following the company's Alternative Fuel Summit in 2006 and comprises eminent scholars in the fields of energy and transport - David Lamb, Mark Diesendorf, John Mathews and Graeme Pearman.

Jamison Group report  (1.8MB)

Read the media release here

Meet the Jamison Group

Mark Diesendorf
Dr Mark Diesendorf has contributed to this project under his business name, Sustainability Centre. Previously, at various times, he has been a Principal Research Scientist in CSIRO, Professor of Environmental Science at University of Technology Sydney, and President of the Australia New Zealand Society for Ecological Economics. He is author of many scholarly papers, consulting reports, popular articles and media items on ecologically sustainable development, including the recent book 'Greenhouse Solutions with Sustainable Energy'.
David Lamb
David Lamb worked for 28 years in the motor industry in Australia and around the world. From 1992 to 2003 he was Chief Executive of the CSIRO Australian Automotive Technology Centre and was responsible for the CSIRO Low Emission Vehicle project that resulted in two hybrid electric show cars. The aXcessaustralia car was exhibited around the world to carmakers. He was also responsible for the collaboration between CSIRO and Holden Australia to produce the Holden ECOommodore Hybrid electric car, first shown publicly in May 2000. Now retired from CSIRO, David consults on automotive technology and strategy.
John Mathews
John Mathews is Professor of Strategic Management at Macquarie Graduate School of Management, Macquarie University in Sydney. He is the author of the books Strategizing, Disequilibrium and Profit (2006), Dragon Multinational: A New Model of Global Growth (2002), Tiger Technology: The Creation of a Semiconductor Industry in East Asia (2000). Specialising in technology and innovation, John has published papers on the renewable energy industries, alternative fuels and biofuels industries. He has worked internationally with UNCTAD, UNIDO and with the World Bank, and was a Visiting Scholar at the Rockefellar Foundation Study Center at Bellagio, in Italy, in September 2004.
Graeme Pearman
Dr Graeme Pearman joined CSIRO, in 1971 where he was Chief of Atmospheric Research, 1992-2002. He contributed over 150 scientific journal papers primarily on aspects of the global carbon budget. Graeme went onto help establish the new Monash University Sustainability Institute. Graeme's work has been internationally recognised with numerous distinctions and medals. As leading science advisor, including for Hon. Al Gore in 2006 and 2007, he was voted in the 100 most influential Melbournians by The Age newspaper in 2007 and was selected as a participant in Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's 2020 Forum, April 2008.