NZ Post tight-lipped on Postman Pat cars

By Lois Cairns. New Zealand Post is keeping quiet about when its electric delivery vehicles could be introduced into Christchurch, saying it does not want to create uncertainty for its workforce. The company fronted up to a meeting of the Christchurch City Council’s infrastructure, transport and environment committee on Thursday to ask for permission to […]

Council in NSW leads way

A council across the Tasman is pleased with the performance of electric vehicles (EVs) in its fleet. Chris Binns, manager of strategy and assets at the City of Sydney, was one of the keynote speakers at Drive Electric’s plug-in fleet day on April 30. He told Autofile Online the council made a commitment to support […]

Batteries included: Ambitious gambit by Tesla

By Juha Saarinen. Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk’s latest house and business battery venture is an interesting but also very ambitious gambit. Most of the reporting has been on the Tesla Energy PowerWall 7 and 10 kilowatt-hour house batteries, but the business model, the 100 kWh PowerPacks are equally interesting. The PowerPacks are designed to supplement […]