To see how functional they are in day to day life the aa motoring services team got behind the wheel of two pure electric vehicles evs and the first long range e car available in new zealand.
Number of electric cars in new zealand.
The number of electric vehicles evs registered on new zealand roads officially has passed the 10 000 milestone.
New zealand now has more than 3700 electric vehicles on the road.
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.
This includes measures to increase the number of electric vehicles in new zealand and has a goal of reaching approximately 64 000 electric vehicles on our roads by the end of 2021.
Almost 280 electric vehicles were registered the highest in a single month the energy efficiency and conservation authority said.
Analysts there are expecting new zealand to reach 100 per cent of new vehicles by 2030 as part of a plan to ensure that 90 per cent of the entire fleet if not 100 per cent is electric by 2050.
Our base case assumption is that evs will achieve 100 penetration of new light fleet imports by 2030 and 100 of used imports by 2035 deutsche.
2018 new zealand vehicle fleet annual statistics pdf 12 mb pdf 4 1 mb the spreadsheet holds the graphs shown in the pdf and the data they are based on.
We started with mitsubishi s quirky little imiev.
Because evs need very little maintenance even one that has clocked 10k is almost like new.
2018 new zealand vehicle fleet annual spreadsheet xlsx 1 2 mb from 2014 the vehicle fleet statistics will be released in august september.
The reality is that the number of evs.
September saw 1008 new registrations the largest number by far boosted by the arrival of new.
The government s aim is to help develop the electric vehicle market in new zealand by reducing some of the barriers and investigating ways to further support the.
Vehicles currently registered in the tararua district new zealand by type 2020 vehicles currently registered in the carterton district new zealand by type 2020 passenger cars and vans currently registered by territorial authority 2020.
10 000 evs is an important milestone particularly when you think that five years ago we had just 210 evs registered acting associate transport minister james shaw said.
Electric vehicles are here now.
The authority said it was well on track to reach its goal of 4000 electric vehicles registed by the end of the year.
Second hand evs are imported from the uk and japan.