Any reasons why they haven’t included hybrids ( not the PHEV ones)
harm_less,
Jun 14, 5:37am
Subsidising both PVs and EVs would be the ticket in a two bird with one stone effect.
harm_less,
Jun 14, 5:37am
Totally reliant on fossil fuel?
trogedon,
Jun 14, 5:39am
Where to stop the subsidy - PV, EV and very economical petrol cars.
tony9,
Jun 14, 5:47am
They will all be subject to the subsidies.
mazalinas,
Jun 14, 5:51am
So many high rise apartment dwellers in Auckland now and no cables long enough to charge your car from the third floor. I wonder if the developers have figured this into their plans. There's gonna be loads of bun fights over charging stations in the cities haha
cjohnw,
Jun 14, 5:56am
All electric vehicles are included. Ev, Phev, Hybrid as well as lower emissionproducing vehicles to varying extents.
whynot47,
Jun 14, 6:36am
If you want to complain about this tip of the iceberg that is coming. then blame Winston Peters. If you cant work out why you should blame him, you arent very savvy are you?
gennie,
Jun 14, 6:49am
None of the MSM announcements have the small print - if the 'fund' runs short then they will stop paying the reimbursement and will only start paying it again when the fund builds up again. There is also an end date of 31 December 2021. So say you order an EV or PHEV but when it arrives the fund has got too low so you can't get your reimbursement as you need to register the car to use it as you can't afford to leave it sitting at the dealers in the hope the rebate starts up again. So you miss out. A month later they start the rebate again as they have built up funds - there is no catch up reimbursements, they only apply again from the restart date so it is tough bikkies for you. So it is basically roulette as to whether you get the reimbursement or not. Such a good plan to encourage the purchase of EV's.
bitsy_boffin,
Jun 14, 6:58am
Yes a bit of a gamble this year especially if you buy one in transit or import direct.
I would only buy off the dealers yard, register and submit the rebate immediately.
msigg,
Jun 14, 6:58am
Better get your new Rangers and Hilux before the deadline and save 3k, The second hand ones will be going up in price too.It will be the have's and the have nots soon.
paul861,
Jun 14, 6:58am
what sort of car?
bill1451,
Jun 14, 7:00am
yea we,ve all got $75000 or whatever sitting in our bank accounts just waiting to get in the cue to buy a Tesla which you probably can,t even fit a towbar to, to carry a load of plastic to the dump station. Bring back glass bottles and brown paper at the butcher and baker or go to India and swim in it.(plastic)
bill1451,
Jun 14, 7:04am
This country used to be one of the most desirable to live in, its now one of the most expensive and anyone with half a brain will leave or has already left, myself have finished my working life and don,t really give a damn
cjohnw,
Jun 14, 7:22am
What a load of bullshite! Firstly, the announcement was not made by MSM, it was made at a press conference held by two Ministers of the Crown of a Government with a significant governing majority. Secondly there is no such thing as “small print” in legislation proposed to be passed into NZ law. The fee and rebate scheme will continue uninterrupted until the end of the year irrespective of any conditions or budget constraints and then be replaced with a full rebate and fee scheme from 1 January 2022.
s_nz,
Jun 14, 7:23am
$61,275 driveway for the base model 3. Sure I don't have that sort of money, but it is now a serious value offering against a BMW 320i, Merc C series etc. Hell it's only $10k more than a top spec camry.
You can fit a towbar to a model 3. The car is rated for 910kg braked towing (but for some reason tesla dosn't offer a factory towbar in NZ so you have to go aftermarket):
So does this also means Hybrid vehicles will also be phased out, in 15 years?
cjohnw,
Jun 14, 7:26am
I don’t want to fit a towbar to my Tesla. I have no need to go to the dump station with any of that, my recycling is collected from my gate. The rest of what you say is nonsensical. By the way, I have emailed Tesla Auckland tonight to get more info. Like it or not, I do not care.
cjohnw,
Jun 14, 7:28am
Yep. Not that I need a towbar at all.
bitsy_boffin,
Jun 14, 7:37am
There is a limit on rebate funds, from the WK page.
"If, due to high demand, rebate funds are exhausted, Waka Kotahi will notify that the rebate window is closed and no discounts (rebates) will be offered during this time. Once we announce the scheme has restarted, only vehicles registered from the restart date will be eligible for rebates."
s_nz,
Jun 14, 7:39am
Not as part of this policy. In fact, come 1 Jan 2022, a new corolla hybrid will pick up a $3210 Discount.
You might be thinking of the climate change commission report released a few weeks ago, which recommends the import of fossel fuel car imports be banned by 2032 (that would include hybrids). No word on if the NZ government is going to adopt that recommendation yet. The UK is banning non plug in cars from 2030, and then Plug in hybrids also from 3035. I think we might mirror the UK approach, or lag 5 years behind.
tygertung,
Jun 14, 8:04am
I dunno, a few years I saw some receipt in the glovebox of a Turbo Sigma maybe, or a fancy Accord which was to a doctor who bought the car new in the 80s for a surprisingly high price. Cars are much cheaper now, I guess they have better robots so it is cheaper to build them.
So your saying johnny the plumber with his 10 vans can have them all charging safely all night every night at the workshop ?
tygertung,
Jun 14, 8:33am
A workshop may well have a higher rated power connection than a domestic situation.
s_nz,
Jun 14, 8:36am
Most likely. Workshops generally have fairly decent power supplies, and being commercial can pay for upgrades if they want. Also EV wallboxes that have communication to share available capacity around the EV's are available. At the start 10 ev's are charging, so each gets 1/10th of the capacity allocated. when the first one finishes the allocation to each other EV goes up to 1/9th and so on.
As a side note, I charge my EV at 8 amps at home. If I turned everything else off, I could charge 7 of them at a time on my 60A (I think) feed. I think workshops would have three 60Amp or greater feeds.
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