PM rejects dept's electric vehicle target

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has disputed figures provided by senior Environment Department officials relating to the government's electric vehicle target.

In Senate estimates hearing last week senior government officials said the coalition's climate solutions package uses a target of 25 to 50 per cent of new car sales in 2030 as electric vehicles.

"That's not true ... our target was 16 per cent ranging up to 50 per cent," the prime minister told Seven's Sunrise on Friday.

"I know what my policy is."

The department's target is used for emissions reduction projections and is within the similar range of Labor's 50 per cent electric car target of all new car sales by 2030, which Mr Morrison has been critical of.