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 didn’t believe in the EV revolution.
“Isn’t it funny that when we don’t want something that we should want, it’s called disinformation?” 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 street parking. How am I going to charge my car?’
Kate Langbroek (pictured) said she wouldn’t buy an electric car because ‘I don’t want to wait four hours to charge my car’
Before Langbroek’s comments, the program aired reports that Tesla sales fell 44 percent in April despite a recent attempt to compete with cheaper Chinese-made electric vehicles by cutting prices.
However, the sales decline was not exclusive to Elon Musk’s company: overall EV sales fell by five percent, despite increased popularity over the past three years.
Waleed Aly was quick to defend EVs, describing Langbroek’s tirade as a “beat-up.”
“All you’re doing is comparing last year to this year and saying they’re down five percent… at a time of a cost-of-living crisis,” he said.
Langbroek replied: ‘Then why did we tell the story?’
Aly looked surprised as he admitted: ‘I don’t know’, before Sarah Harris suggested that a large part of the target group for electric vehicles already owned the cars when they were new, several years ago.
“I think with any new technology you get the early adopters, right? “Everyone is rushing towards it, just like when the iPhone comes out,” she said.
Waleed Aly (left) described Langbroek’s tirade as a “beat-up”, while Sarah Harris (right) suggested that much of the target group for electric vehicles already owns the vehicles
Langbroek compared electric cars to CD players.
“It’s like my dad with a CD player, and you know what? It turned out he was right! Who has 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 reduced from $63,000 to $39,990, while the price of a GWM Ora was reduced by 20 percent to $35,990.
Before the 2022 federal election, Labor predicted that electric cars would make up 89 percent of new car sales by 2030.
However, that figure has fallen dramatically, with the federal transportation department admitting they could make up just 27 percent.