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An electric car is now being sold every 100 seconds, with sales roughly doubling in the second quarter of this year and outstripping petrol and diesel cars for the first time in August. But as motorists look to escape soaring fuel costs, partly due to the Iran war, do we have the chargers needed to sustain the rapid surge? Today, ABC energy reporter Daniel Mercer on the plans for a mass rollout of EV infrastructure and who should pay for it. Featured: Dan Mercer, ABC energy reporter
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ABC Listen, podcasts, radio, news, music and more. Want to know what's keeping ABC's business reporters busy? There is a sense where the RBA is having to keep up with the Joneses and to an extent at least we are going to be held hostage by global bond traders.
Join me, Carrington Clark, host of ABC Business Daily, every Monday through Thursday. as I sit down with my fellow journalists to chat everything from markets to monetary policy. Find ABC Business Daily on ABC Listen or wherever you get your podcasts. Something extraordinary is happening to EV sales in Australia. An electric car is now being sold
every 100 seconds, with sales roughly doubling in the second quarter of this year. But as motorists look to escape soaring fuel costs, do we have the charges needed to sustain the rapid surge? Today, ABC Energy reporter Daniel Mercer plans for a mass roll-out of EV infrastructure.
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