14-10-2019, 07:46 AM
Hi Bob,
The NZ light vehicle fleet is just over 3.6 million vehicles. The last full year we have numbers for (2018) shows that we imported a bit over 300,000 vehicles both new and used. Of these the total E vehicles both fully electric and hybrid was 5,500, so far this year to end of September the number is 5,300. So only increasing very slowly.
As you can see, even if every light vehicle we imported was electric it would take 12 years to replace the fleet, however of the vehicles we are importing only around 0.2% annually are electric and about 20% of those are hybrids.
So with one-fifth of 1% electric, I don't think that we need to worry too much about petrol powered vehicles being banned in the foreseeable future.
Cheers
Marcus
The NZ light vehicle fleet is just over 3.6 million vehicles. The last full year we have numbers for (2018) shows that we imported a bit over 300,000 vehicles both new and used. Of these the total E vehicles both fully electric and hybrid was 5,500, so far this year to end of September the number is 5,300. So only increasing very slowly.
As you can see, even if every light vehicle we imported was electric it would take 12 years to replace the fleet, however of the vehicles we are importing only around 0.2% annually are electric and about 20% of those are hybrids.
So with one-fifth of 1% electric, I don't think that we need to worry too much about petrol powered vehicles being banned in the foreseeable future.
Cheers
Marcus