# How will we charge the EV boom?

An episode of [ABC News Daily](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1349523628), 7 Oct 2026, 16 min.

Audio: https://mediacore-live-production.akamaized.net/audio/02/p7/Z/2h.mp3

An electric car is now being sold every 100 seconds, with sales roughly doubling in the second quarter of this year and outstripping petrol and diesel cars for the first time in August. But as motorists look to escape soaring fuel costs, partly due to the Iran war, do we have the chargers needed to sustain the rapid surge? Today, ABC energy reporter Daniel Mercer on the plans for a mass rollout of EV infrastructure and who should pay for it. Featured: Dan Mercer, ABC energy reporter

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