Opposition leader Peter Dutton has said Australians need to be more realistic about reconfiguring the entire power grid to reach net-zero.
“It’s hard to have a rational conversation on this topic with people because you’re shouted down for being a backward-looking person,” he told 2GB radio on June 2.
“The fact is if a city like Sydney mandated electric cars tomorrow … the electricity grid would collapse because of people plugging their cars in at six o’clock at night, they’d go home, have a shower, have some dinner, sit down and watch TV … just the peak load of that—it just scientifically can’t work,” he said….