Post AmHgiMoL9ArNbOd6fI by TreeStarMan@mastodon.social
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(DIR) Post #AmHbGR23MMW8oZuDAm by lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2024-09-23T01:27:42Z
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Whelp, the bottom's falling out of the local BEV market... I'm seeing new $60k+ Nissan Leafs being discounted to ~$30k. Wow. Good buying for the current backlog of EVs in dealer yards. Won't be many imported after that, as dealers will be gunshy after NACT1st's pro-oil-lobby policies e.g. removing the EV clean car discount, which more than paid for itself & sudden application of RUC. As a BEV owner, happy to pay a RUC, but it seems that far more enviro-harming ICE vehicles pay half as much...
(DIR) Post #AmHbGRZNMTAkTvUp72 by TreeStarMan@mastodon.social
2024-09-23T03:23:41Z
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@lightweight Our EV policy is doubly bonkers given that we aren't likely to meet our 2050 net C neutral target. Taxpayers are going to squeal when we spend billions to purchase O/S C credits, and #Aotearoa's reputation will suffer, sabotaging our exports. #nzpol #climatechange
(DIR) Post #AmHbGS4vTAPS3mG1I0 by vik@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2024-09-23T03:51:07Z
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@TreeStarMan @lightweight Gonna happen the same way whatever happens to electric cars (and I drive them happily). Road transport is 17% of our emissions and private is half that. EVs are still a thing so the proportion from private cars will fall, but electric road freight is a mere gleam in designer's eyes and no way do we as a country have the money to replace our IC freight infrastructure.
(DIR) Post #AmHfFM5wd8yD1sSzA0 by lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2024-09-23T04:35:25Z
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@vik @TreeStarMan our dogmatic preference for trucking over rail/sea freight shipping is quite disappointing. We could substantially reduce wear on roading as well as carbon released by shifting towards those other modes and using trucks only for short freight movements.
(DIR) Post #AmHgiMoL9ArNbOd6fI by TreeStarMan@mastodon.social
2024-09-23T04:52:14Z
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@vik @lightweight Agreed, we need far more than just a swap to electric cars: railway-enabled large ferries, more enlightened forest policy, more cycleways, better and electric public transport, and above all a sensible agricultural policy. #nzpol #climatechange #aotearoa #NewZealand
(DIR) Post #AmHgnTZ3StzNzmusLo by vik@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2024-09-23T04:53:07Z
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@lightweight This stems from our lack of rail and port infrastructure I suspect. We're a teeny, tiny and widely dispersed population in a honking great country. If we - companies, government, individuals, whatever - don't have the cash to service the *whole* population, nothing changes. @TreeStarMan
(DIR) Post #AmHh8dBKu2aFu9uSX2 by vik@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2024-09-23T04:56:30Z
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@TreeStarMan @lightweight Yeah. One problem I've just been discussing elsewhere is the need to service the entire population rather than just the ones in major population centres. The infrastructure needs to be dealt with as a whole, or there'll be a skewed proportion serving only the outliers which could have been done to everyone's benefit at lower cost.