With Scott Morrison gone, Sussan Ley has taken up the task of baseless EV bashing

Sussan Ley’s comments on electric utes are ‘symptomatic of the former government’s head-in-the-sand mentality’, says Jake Whitehead of the EV Council. Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAP

Once upon a time in the former Morrison government, policies to promote electric cars were going to “end the weekend”, while the vehicles themselves wouldn’t be able to tow your boat or trailer.

Now in opposition and with Scott Morrison consigned to the backbench, the Liberal party’s deputy leader, Sussan Ley, has continued the EV bashing.