The Insider: Switch-on time for Minister
Energy and Resources Minister Simon Bridges has been talking the talk about electric cars and how they might not only help the environment, but also use all that renewable energy New Zealand has. One way to increase the supply of new-tech cars is for corporate fleets to buy them, then flick them on a few […]
Electric Vehicles | We had EVs in the 1920s, why aren’t ready for them now?
By Dave Moore. When the Minister of Transport recently uttered that New Zealand was “the most EV-ready country” recently, one wonders what kind of research was involved in making that statement. The fact that other countries have had supportive attitudes, subsidies and infrastructures in place for a decade already, and a lot longer than that […]
Mass-market electric cars will go 200 miles, but are still a long way from being profitable
By Steve LeVine. Several major automobile makers are racing to create electric cars within an upper-mass-market sweet spot—traveling 200 miles or more on a charge, and costing $30,000 to $40,000. But a new report adds to doubts that they will make money, especially at first. Electric cars are currently in a variation of the innovation […]
The auto tech reckoning has arrived
By Lauren Hepler. For all the talk about all the ways technology stands to revolutionize the experience of driving, most cars on the market today actually speak much louder about the challenge of turning the hype around auto tech into reality. Take the futuristic touchscreens now embedded in the dashboards of some car models. The […]
