'All the bones are there': could a new electric vehicle be built in Australia?

With the right incentives, many believe Australia can still ride the electric revolution, reviving its car industry and slashing emissions at the same time

Walking around the old Holden factory site in Elizabeth, Paschal Somers points out each piece of machinery to explain what it does and how it could be brought back to life.

Though the massive factory complex in suburban Adelaide closed down three years ago, General Motors abandoned most of the machines to the site's new owners when they sold the land, and they are still sitting there idle.