Explain Carbon Car Policy, PM Tells Labor

Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Small Business Minister Michaelia Cash during a press conference after a BBQ Breakfast at a residential building site in Googong in Canberra, Australia, on April 4, 2019. Tracey Nearmy/Getty Images

Scott Morrison has backed away from his party’s criticism of electric vehicles but put the pressure on Bill Shorten to explain how his carbon emissions policy will add to car prices.

Coalition MPs this week accused Labor of wanting to “ban” utes because the party wants to see 50 percent of new vehicles sold in Australia run on electric power by 2030.