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National and ACT reaffirm plans to cancel Clean Car Discount (autotalk.co.nz)

submitted 1 year ago by eagleeyedtiger to c/politics

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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.

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[–] Dave 13 points 1 year ago (29 children)

I predict a big increase in the number of electric and hybrid cars sold in the next few months...

I like the discount, I think we need to encourage vehicles with lower emissions and NZ is a great place to do so since we have 80%+ of power from renewable sources (and if you charge overnight it's higher).

I don't mind other approaches. But so far National's policies don't really add up. Ok, remove this incentive, but how will you meet the targets?

[–] NoRamyunForYou 3 points 1 year ago (26 children)

Hmm, yeah makes you start thinking. We've been thinking that our next cat will be an electric car - but we've put it off for now as we don't really drive a lot at the moment, and we've had a lot of expenses recently with a house and all that.

Maybe we should bring it forward...maybe.

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