National and ACT reaffirm plans to cancel Clean Car Discount • Autotalk
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National and ACT have both reaffirmed their previously announced plans to cancel the Clean Car Discount, a decision highlighted during a political debate last night. This announcement took place at the Motor Trade Association’s political debate, which was held online in Wellington. Moderated by TV political journalist Lloyd Burr, the panel consisted of National transport […]

I’m curious to know what others think of this.

I’m personally for keeping it as I see the benefit coming in a few years having many more EV’s available in the second hand market. Currently it’s pretty much dominated by mainly Nissan Leaf’s at the lower end of the secondhand market.

I know of a few people as well who have bought EV/Hybrids recently that would not have even considered going for EV’s or even hybrids without the rebate.

  • @2tapry
    1•10 months ago

    Looking at what EV’s have been popular in China over the last couple of years:

    2-3 years ago the most popular EV was the Wuling Hongguang Mini EV:

    This year it’s the BYD Song Plus:

    The Wuling is still in the top five, but so are Tesla. Seems like SUV’s are what people want - how could you change peoples minds? Perhaps offer larger rebates on smaller EV’s? Or, tax luxury (SUV) EV’s? Have to get rid of those oil burners first though!?

    • @murl
      1•10 months ago

      You are right, it’s what people want.

      The way to incentivise smaller vehicles (and less private vehicle travel generally) is through RUC and congestion charges. If we paid for road usage based on weight/footprint the demand for bigger cars wouldn’t be so high.

      If we had price rationing at peak times (commute, school run etc.) then people would be incentivised to pool, use alternatives, etc.

      The emissions from building more roads and parking spaces is non-trivial too.