15-09-2023, 07:24 PM
(15-09-2023, 05:44 PM)Praktica Wrote: The capital costs has to be taken into account - I saw 3 EVs on display at the mall in Dunedin, today. They were all priced at just under $50,000 plus orc. I paid a quarter of that for a small economical petrol car (used) some years ago, We don't use it much - I've spent less than $100 on fuel since the 1st of June, and the tank is 3/4 full. An EV would be no use to me. Having to go through the RUC rigmarole is, for me, a gross waste of time.Comparing new EVs with secondhand petrol cars is fairly irrelevant. We are currently selling an older Leaf (which still has ~70km of usable battery range) for $6,000. We're rural so the range has become challenging for us but for an urban dweller it will provide a shopping and school run vehicle that will probably cost the new owner <$3/day in home charging. EVs are no longer the domain of just the rich and their new prices are now reaching parity with their petrol equivalents.
As for the RUC "rigmarole" it will most likely be able to be done online and it's looking very probable that all road vehicles will be drawn into this system next year.