{"id":7042,"date":"2021-04-20T18:51:34","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T08:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/?p=7042"},"modified":"2021-04-20T18:51:36","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T08:51:36","slug":"australians-want-to-buy-electric-cars-but-car-makers-say-government-policy-blocks-supply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/2021\/04\/20\/australians-want-to-buy-electric-cars-but-car-makers-say-government-policy-blocks-supply\/","title":{"rendered":"Australians want to buy electric cars, but car makers say government policy blocks supply"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The answer is complex and takes us down a twisting path of carbon targets,\u00a0&#8220;super credits&#8221;\u00a0and other matters that people outside the auto industry generally don&#8217;t pay much attention to. At the end of this path,\u00a0however, is an obvious fact:\u00a0EVs\u00a0that sell\u00a0well in\u00a0Europe, the US and UK are simply not available in Australia. Volkswagen, which is on track to become the world&#8217;s largest EV maker,\u00a0sold 212,000 EVs worldwide in 2020.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/science\/2021-04-20\/australians-want-to-buy-electric-cars-what-is-stopping-us\/100071550\">https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/science\/2021-04-20\/australians-want-to-buy-electric-cars-what-is-stopping-us\/100071550<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The answer is complex and takes us down a twisting path of carbon targets,\u00a0&#8220;super credits&#8221;\u00a0and other matters that people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[467,439,466,4,465],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-corruption","category-energy","category-politics","category-stupidity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7043,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7042\/revisions\/7043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}