The Project host Kate Langbroek has revealed why she will never buy an electric car.
Langbroek blindsided her co-stars on Tuesday’s episode of the panel discussion show when she declared she was not buying into the EV revolution.
‘Isn’t it funny that when we don’t want something that we’re supposed to want it’s called misinformation?,’ Langbroek said.
‘The reason I don’t have one is because of information – I don’t want to have to wait four hours to charge my car.
‘I don’t have a garage. I don’t have off-street parking. How am I going to charge my car?’
Prior to Langbroek’s comments, the program aired reports that Tesla sales fell 44 per cent in April despite a recent effort to compete with cheaper Chinese-manufactured EVs by dropping prices.
However, the sales drop wasn’t exclusive to Elon Musk’s company with overall EV sales down five per cent, despite increased popularity in the last three years.
Waleed Aly was quick to defend EVs and described Langbroek’s rant as a ‘beat up’.
‘All you’re doing is comparing last year to this year and then saying they’re down five per cent … at a time of a cost of living crisis,’ he said.
Langbroek responded: ‘Well why did we run the story then?’
Aly looked surprised as he admitted, ‘I don’t know’ before Sarah Harris suggested a large portion of the EVs target market already own the vehicles from when they were new, several years ago.
‘I think you get the early adopters with any new technology, right? Everyone rushes towards it, like when the iPhone comes out,’ she said.
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Langbroek compared electric cars to CD players.
‘It’s like how my dad was with a CD player, and you know what? It turned out he was right! Who’s got a CD player now?’
Tesla massively discounted its vehicles last month with its brand new Tesla Model Y now $11,400 cheaper.
The Peugeot e2008 was also dropped from $63,000 to $39,990 while the price of a GWM Ora was reduced by 20 per cent to $35,990.
Before the 2022 federal election, Labor predicted 89 per cent of new car sales would be EVs by 2030.
However, that figure has drastically dropped with the federal transport department admitting they could make up as little as 27 per cent.