{"id":791242,"date":"2026-07-10T11:31:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T11:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/791242\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T11:31:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T11:31:12","slug":"ev-and-hybrid-sales-approaching-50pc-as-fuel-crisis-pushes-australians-to-ditch-petrol-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/791242\/","title":{"rendered":"EV and hybrid sales approaching 50pc as fuel crisis pushes Australians to ditch petrol cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jul 10, 2026 \u2013 8.00pm<\/p>\n<p>In the lead up to the 2019 election, with Scott Morrison\u2019s Coalition government behind in the polls, the then prime minister delivered one of the more memorable lines in recent Australian political history.<\/p>\n<p>Labor\u2019s electric vehicle policy \u2013 which was only marginally more ambitious than the Coalition\u2019s \u2013 was targeting a 50 per cent EV share of new car sales by 2030, up from a measly 0.2 per cent. Morrison, sensing genuine voter trepidation about the EV revolution, pounced. Labor, he said, wanted to \u201cend the weekend\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jul 10, 2026 \u2013 8.00pm In the lead up to the 2019 election, with Scott Morrison\u2019s Coalition government&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":791243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-791242","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\/791242","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=791242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/791243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}