‘Wicked problem’: Coalition doesn’t rule out EV road user tax as fuel excise falls with uptake of greener vehicles

Bridget McKenzie tells Insiders she is working on the opposition's transport policy ahead of the next federal election - including EV plans

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Liberal senator Bridget McKenzie has again left the door open for a Coalition government to level a road user charge against owners of electric vehicles, indicating concern about decreasing fuel excise and the impact on budgets for road repairs.

But the shadow transport minister also said the Coalition wouldn't follow the US in banning Chinese-made EVs, which put her at odds with comments on Sunday from Nationals colleague, Barnaby Joyce. He invoked last week's Hezbollah members' pager explosions in raising his concern about technology he claimed could be made with a malevolent purpose" by a totalitarian state".

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