Scott Morrison (Cook, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

In particular, where I was on that day at Toyota, the advance in technologies that has occurred with hydrogen powered vehicles, particularly consumer vehicles, and in heavy industry in heavy vehicles has come forward in leaps and bounds. Now, the Leader of the Opposition says hydrogen vehicles are not EV. I just heard him say it. What does he think hydrogen does in an electric vehicle? It converts it into electricity which drives the battery. That's what an electric vehicle is. It can be powered by a charger. It can be powered by hydrogen. The Leader of the Opposition has no clue what he's talking about when it comes to these vehicles.

This might come as a bit of a shock to the Leader of the Opposition, but, in Australia, there are very large distances over which Australians travel, and, if he thinks you can have charging stations along the Outback Way, good luck to him! But what I know from talking to the transport industry, what I know from talking to the vehicle manufacturers and people like Dr Alan Finkel is that here, in Australia, hydrogen powered electric vehicles is an Australian solution. It's a solution for Australian transport. Now, that might not go down so well in the cafes of Marrickville. That might not go down so well when he's spinning the discs there pretending to be a DJ.

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