Janet Rice (Victoria, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

One further question came to me as I was riding my bike to parliament this morning: are electric bicycles covered under this legislation? It would seem to me that, if you're offering fringe benefits tax exemptions, that would be a sensible thing. A lot of people are choosing to purchase an electric bike rather than a second car, and it's something that we really should be encouraging. Certainly pedal-powered—human-powered—bicycles are the ultimate zero emissions vehicles. Electric bicycles, of course, if they are powered by renewable energy, similarly, are zero emissions vehicles.