Electric Vehicles Programme launched

What happened

Announced Electric Vehicles Programme: target ~64,000 EV registrations by 2021; extended road-user charge exemptions; $6m/year innovation fund; charging infrastructure coordination; promotion campaign.

Why it matters

Early demand-side transport measure to accelerate EV uptake.

Impact assessment

Clear mitigation programme with funding and incentives; modest scale relative to fleet size.

Limitations: Uptake improved but remained a small share of the light-vehicle fleet by 2021.

Attribution

sole (high confidence) -National

Transport Minister Simon Bridges announcement.

Coalition period: National-led government (ACT confidence & supply) (20 September 2014 - 26 October 2017)

Categories

Sources

• Beehive - Govt driving the switch to electric vehicles
• NBR - Government announces multi-million package for electric vehicles