Victoria Carter: City needs to think outside the square
By Victoria Carter. Auckland is desperately in need of some bold new ideas, and those ideas need the council’s support. How many good ideas has Auckland lost because of council’s lack of enthusiasm? How many good ideas drown in environments that are too bureaucratic or process bound? Auckland desperately needs ideas to be a more […]
Spark needed for electric vehicles, says Mighty River Power boss
By Brian Fallow. Mighty River Power chief discusses plan to convert 70% of firm’s vehicles to all-electric or hybrids. Fleets, public and private, are the key to the uptake of electric vehicles in this country, Mighty River Power chief executive Fraser Whineray says. An evangelical fan of the technology, Whineray says New Zealand is one […]
Plug-in Porsche Cayenne electrifies
By Dave Moore. The concept of a hybrid Porsche is well established now, even on the racetrack where prototype race cars and the marque’s 918 coupes and convertibles demonstrate how useful electric power is in terms of adding to performance, as well as saving the planet. In time, Porsche will add petrol-electric plug-in versions of […]
Electric-vehicle revolution is coming: charged by Aussie technology
By Sophie Vorrath. ‘It’s time to join the revolution.’ That was the message delivered by leading investment bank UBS in a note to clients last August that predicted investment in electric vehicles (EVs) – plus rooftop solar, plus battery storage – would be as low as six-to-eight years by 2020, triggering a massive revolution in […]
Get out of the driver’s seat, human
By Chris Taylor. Here are two things we know about human beings: First, they are nowhere near as good at driving as they like to think. Second, they are very resistant to change, even when that change will prevent millions of deaths. How bad at driving are we? In the U.S. alone, we get into […]
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Tesla basically just ignited the driverless car era
By Chris Taylor. The computer-controlled driverless car is barreling down the road of the future towards us. We’ve known this for a long time, but the speed and the matter-of-factness with which it is moving from prototype to actual product still has the power to give you whiplash. That became clear on Thursday, when Elon […]
‘Renewables Highway’ to Jump-start NZ Charging Infrastructure
PRESS RELEASE ‘Renewables Highway’ to Jump-start NZ Charging Infrastructure Auckland 17 March 2015 – Drive Electric says it is excited about the jump-start that a ‘Renewables Highway’ would provide to accelerate the uptake of electric vehicles in New Zealand. Responding to the announcement today by the Electricity Networks Association (ENA) of a nation-wide initiative to […]
Scoping study for ‘Renewables Highway’
Wednesday, 18 March 2015, 10:41 am Press Release: Electricity Networks Association Electricity Networks Association announces scoping study for ‘Renewables Highway’ The Electricity Networks Association today announced an initiative that could see New Zealand become one of the first countries in the world to have a complete network of charging locations for plug-in electric vehicles – […]