Australian politician calls electric vehicles a threat to the weekend

Electric vehicles have become a major issue in the Australian federal election, which will take place May 18. We Boreals may find the political countercurrents difficult to follow, but it seems that the Coalition, an alliance of center-right political parties that has been in power since 2013, recently had a colorful clash over EV policy with the opposing Australian Labor Party.

“Even the members of the Liberal party [part of the center-right Coalition]…who claim they have a genuine desire to address climate change, have been quick to jump on the anti-electric car bandwagon,” Independent Australia continued, citing the example of Liberal candidate Dave Sharma, “who has previously spoken out in favour of addressing climate change.” Sharma compared Labor’s EV-friendly policies to a Soviet-style engineering program. “I don’t want to see it become like the Soviet Union where we all have to buy a Trabant,” he said, referring to a famously shoddy East German car.

Senior Minister Michaelia Cash echoed the they’re-coming-to-take-away-our-cars theme, saying that “50 percent of these apprentices will be driving an electric vehicle under Bill Shorten…we are going to stand by our tradies [tradesmen] and we are going to save their utes [pickup trucks].”

Independent Senator Tim Storer, who chaired a Senate committee inquiry into EVs, said he was “deeply concerned” by what he saw as an anti-technology scare campaign. “It is akin to someone in 1990 arguing mobile phones were not going to take off. It flies in the face of fact, and the public should not buy it.”

“Australians already have a strong appetite for electric vehicles, with 50% interested in purchasing an electric vehicle by 2025 — a full five years earlier than Labor’s EV target and significantly faster than the government’s strategy,” said the Australia Institute’s Richie Merzian. “Australians across all parties support a national electric vehicle policy — all that’s missing is policy leadership.”

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