Abstract
Technologies are situated within a particular cultural context, and the car plays a particularly prominent role in Australian culture. We assembled these papers to observe a point of potential technological and cultural bifurcation, as the rise of the Electric Vehicle (EV) threatens to end the dominance of Internal Combustion Engines (ICE) in Australia. The papers in this issue are all situated at this moment, confronting the immanent challenges and opportunities presented by technological and cultural change. What follows, therefore, is an attempt to explain the political and cultural context at the point where Australia started to seriously consider whether we could embrace electric vehicles...
