How the humble stink bug helped Australia miss a major EV milestone
Rumours of a downturn in interest in or appetite for electric vehicles are just that.
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Australia has missed a major electric vehicle milestone partly thanks to an unexpected bug in the system.
Sales of low-emission vehicles had been tipped to top 100,000 for the first time in 2023.
But just as thousands of motorists were expecting a Christmas car delivery, the cargo ship holding them off the coast of Brisbane turned around and returned to China.
The reason? The discovery of yellow-spotted stink bugs.
Motorists around the nation bought 87,217 electric cars in 2023, or more than double the figure from 2022, but fell just short of the council’s forecast.
“Deliveries of electric vehicles would have passed 100,000 if it wasn’t for this ship being turned around with stink bugs and that would be been nice for us to celebrate,” he said. “Nobody sets out to have these problems come up.”
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