By Nic White For Daily Mail Australia
Published: 04:37 BST, 1 May 2019 | Updated: 04:40 BST, 1 May 2019
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Bill Shorten has finally tried to explain cost of his electric car policy... by comparing it to exercising and cutting down on Big Macs.
The Opposition Leader spent weeks dodging questions about how his plan to make half of all Australian new car sales electric by 2030.
Electric cars only have a market share of about 0.2 per cent, selling about 2,500 a year which would need to be dramatically upped to 600,000 in 11 years.
Voters did not warm to Mr Shorten's Big Mac analogy, some even quipping that he should have used a Hungry Jacks one instead since he was 'telling whoppers'.
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Bill Shorten has finally tried to explain cost of his electric car policy... by comparing it to exercising and cutting down on Big Macs
Labor's policy claims it will not subsidise any vehicles, instead spending $100 million to build infrastructure around the country to encourage their use.
'What we're doing is we're saying we'll put in battery-charging stations so that if you want to buy an electric car you've got somewhere to charge it,' Mr Shorten told Perth's Nova 937 radio on Tuesday.
Mr Shorten then justified the expense, and any others that may follow, with a bizarre analogy to 'chubby' people slimming down by cutting fast food and hitting the gym.
'You know what, mate, you are a great athlete,' he said to Nova's morning host.
'But if you had a friend who was perhaps on
