• @[email protected]
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    74 months ago

    I would imagine that people in the market for an EV would have bought it already last december, before the funding was cancelled.

    • @gibberish_driftwood
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      4 months ago

      My thoughts too. From memory sales of double cab utes also surged immediately before and plummeted immediately after the prices went up as expected due to their high emissions.

    • @absGeekNZ
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      54 months ago

      We had planned a new vehicle late this year, changing the price by $7k makes a huge difference to the calculations.

    • @[email protected]
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      54 months ago

      I had a BEV on the budget for late this year (move banks to get a low-interest loan + some savings once the mortgage comes off fixed), isn’t practical with the price increase, so will back burner that plan for a couple of years and hope prices drop a bit