Jul 10, 2026 – 8.00pmIn the lead up to the 2019 election, with Scott Morrison’s Coalition government behind in the polls, the then prime minister delivered one of the more memorable lines in recent Australian political history.Labor’s electric vehicle policy – which was only marginally more ambitious than the Coalition’s – 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 “end the weekend”.Subscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Ryan CroppEnergy and climate reporterRyan Cropp is an energy and climate reporter at The Australian Financial Review based in the Canberra bureau.Fetching latest articles
Tipping point: Australia is on the verge of an EV revolution
Electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla sold more Model Ys in Australian in June than any single car model since the Holden Commodore in the 1990s.
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