National and ACT reaffirm plans to cancel Clean Car Discount • Autotalk
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National and ACT have both reaffirmed their previously announced plans to cancel the Clean Car Discount, a decision highlighted during a political debate last night. This announcement took place at the Motor Trade Association’s political debate, which was held online in Wellington. Moderated by TV political journalist Lloyd Burr, the panel consisted of National transport […]

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.

  • 2tapry@lemmy.nz
    5·
    10 months ago

    Completely nuts to get rid of it! Without incentives like this, most will just continue on as normal, which will result in a very prolonged, if ever, move away from high polluting fossil fuel vehicles.

    Some other subjects are simply crazy too.

    • evanuggetpi@lemmy.nz
      3·
      10 months ago

      Yes, agreed. While I hate our car centric society, we need to move to EVs and reduce the age of the fleet, and this discount helps with that.

      • David Palmer@lemmy.nzEnglish
        2·
        10 months ago

        100%. ICE cars aren’t gonna disappear by magic, and cars in general are here to stay, like them or not. We need to be doing everything we can do remove fossil fuels from our transport infrastructure in general, and this is a great way of doing it.