14 Mar 2024

'Penalty on a plug': what people told MPs about EV taxes

From Morning Report, 8:49 am on 14 March 2024

The government's being told its proposed new taxes on electric vehicles are far too high. 

It wants to charge up to $70 per thousand kilometres driven and those who've rushed to make submissions to a select committee are not impressed. 

The motor industry and consumers are pushing back against what they describe as the 'penalty on a plug'. 

Climate Correspondent Eloise Gibson reports.