{"id":5149,"date":"2022-03-26T19:36:12","date_gmt":"2022-03-26T18:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/26\/sold-out-why-australia-doesnt-have-enough-electric-vehicles-to-go-around\/"},"modified":"2022-03-26T19:36:12","modified_gmt":"2022-03-26T18:36:12","slug":"sold-out-why-australia-doesnt-have-enough-electric-vehicles-to-go-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/26\/sold-out-why-australia-doesnt-have-enough-electric-vehicles-to-go-around\/","title":{"rendered":"Sold out: why Australia doesn\u2019t have enough electric vehicles to go around"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Waiting lists of thousands, cars selling out in seconds, welcome to the frustrating world of the Australian EV buyer<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/australian-news-live\/latest\">Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/ng-interactive\/2018\/may\/15\/the-guardian-app?CMP=cvau_sfl\">Get our free news app<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/guardian-australia-morning-mail\/2014\/jun\/24\/-sp-guardian-australias-morning-mail-subscribe-by-email?CMP=cvau_sfl\">get our morning email briefing<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Matt Holding set an alarm on his phone so he wouldn\u2019t miss out on a limited release of electric vehicles, but by the time he jumped online to buy one they had sold out.<\/p>\n<p>In six and a half minutes, all 109 of Hyundai\u2019s electric SUVs had sold \u2013 18,000 Australians had registered their interest.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2022\/mar\/27\/sold-out-why-australia-doesnt-have-enough-electric-vehicles-to-go-around\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/dec2ea574ed8d29c3d1e5f70c5e60fdb21b4e1ad\/0_7_6000_3600\/master\/6000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=c62d208fae01e7bec292cdc0cbfc6fd7\" title=\"Sold out: why Australia doesn\u2019t have enough electric vehicles to go around\" \/>Waiting lists of thousands, cars selling out in seconds, welcome to the frustrating world of the Australian EV buyer<\/p>\n<p>Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updates<\/p>\n<p>Get our free news app; get our morning email briefing<\/p>\n<p>Matt Holding set an alarm on his phone so he wouldn\u2019t miss out on a limited release of electric vehicles, but by the time he jumped online to buy one they had sold out.<br \/>\nIn six and a half minutes, all 109 of Hyundai\u2019s electric SUVs had sold \u2013 18,000 Australians had registered their interest. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waiting lists of thousands, cars selling out in seconds, welcome to the frustrating world of the Australian EV buyer Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updates Get our free news app; get our morning email briefing Matt Holding set an alarm on his phone so he wouldn\u2019t miss out on a limited &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/26\/sold-out-why-australia-doesnt-have-enough-electric-vehicles-to-go-around\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sold out: why Australia doesn\u2019t have enough electric vehicles to go around<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5150,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5149"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}