{"id":615068,"date":"2026-04-18T12:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T12:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/615068\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T12:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T12:58:09","slug":"the-big-question-that-could-burst-australias-ev-bubble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/615068\/","title":{"rendered":"The big question that could burst Australia&#8217;s EV bubble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interest and sales of electric vehicles have soared since the fuel crisis, but one key question remains that has the potential to halt the revolution.<\/p>\n<p>A\ufeffs Australia is in the grips of a fuel crisis, more and more people are turning towards electric vehicles (EVs) for work and their daily life.<\/p>\n<p>Sales for EVs have gone through the roof since the Middle East conflict began in late February, and we could be on the verge of a motoring revolution.<\/p>\n<p>However, one key question remains, can Australia cope with the rise in demand?<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/9now.nine.com.au\/a-current-affair\/former-afl-players-mitch-robinson-and-rhys-mathieson-caught-spruiking-illegal-online-casinos-on-social-media\/49379297-9b2c-4dc7-bf77-c88d23da415f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Former AFL players caught spruiking illegal online casinos on social media\">Former AFL players caught spruiking illegal online casinos on social media<\/a>\ufeff<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/63ea16a6-8a64-445f-be01-dc702dd10dc6.jpeg\"   alt=\"EV sales increase\"\/>Interest and sales of electric vehicles have soared since the fuel crisis, but one key question remains that has the potential to halt the revolution. (A Current Affair)<\/p>\n<p>Some experts believe we aren&#8217;t ready yet, and that we should borrow some ideas from Europe to catch up in the EV race.<\/p>\n<p>Could it cost Australia dear as it looks to go from gas guzzling to clean and electric?\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>Watch the full story in the player above.\ufeff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Interest and sales of electric vehicles have soared since the fuel crisis, but one key question remains that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615069,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-615068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}