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

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My question is whether this is a cost effective way of reducing our emissions, especially considering EVs still have an environmental impact in their manufacture.

I'd be happy to see a higher carbon levy on fossil fuels, for example, which would also be an incentive to move towards renewable liquid fuels for applications where electric isn't practical.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately that just passes the cost of doing business on to us, the consumers. The oil companies and supply chains still get their lovely profits and shareholder value. It's got to go right back to them, to make the entire fossil fuels ecosystem uneconomical.