Future Of Electric Cars In New Zealand

Electric car fans were excited in july when the nissan leaf new zealand s most popular electric vehicle finally went on sale here officially.

Future of electric cars in new zealand.

The first fruits of the car industry s significant. For new zealand to reach the goal of being net zero carbon by 2050 100 of cars entering nz from 2030 would need to be electric otherwise large numbers of fuel cars will need to be scrapped in the year 2050 because 20 of our cars are over 20 years old. You might like to look for these cars on trademe motors. Second hand evs are imported from the uk and japan.

Much has been made of the dramatic rise in popularity of electric vehicles in the new zealand market with many claiming that the future is here now. Because evs need very little maintenance even one that has clocked 10k is almost like new. New zealand climate change minister james shaw the co leader of the greens and who drives an electric car a hyundai ioniq has been promising to unveil a detailed climate change strategy and the ev component since last october his options include mandating a rapid shift to electric for the government car fleet and following norway s example in making electric vehicle purchases exempt. Electric cars represent the next big step and for new zealand the journey has already begun but as the song says we ain t seen nothing yet.

However the reality is that the number of evs. In the uk and japan evs get tax breaks and other financial incentives which are passed on to new zealand buyers.