EV drivers asked to take global survey, with NZ needing 100 responses to count

New Zealand EV drivers have until 6 October to take part in the Global EV Driver Survey, and the country needs 100 responses to appear in the results as a country in its own right.

The survey is run by the Global EV Alliance, a group of EV driver associations from around the world whose New Zealand member is the Better NZ Trust. It is the third time the survey has run, and it covers charging, range anxiety, ownership experience and the misconceptions drivers encounter. It takes about seven minutes, is anonymous, and the results will be published after it closes.

The 100-response threshold is the part that matters locally. Countries that reach it get their own breakdown in the published data, which gives New Zealand advocates, operators and policymakers a set of numbers drawn from drivers here rather than inferred from overseas markets. Better NZ Trust chair Kathryn Trounson says the country-level subset is always useful for New Zealand.

Local evidence on how people actually live with EVs has been in demand this year, from Trade Me research finding battery condition has overtaken range as the biggest barrier to buying, to charging data suggesting the single and dual-plug sites that shaped our network are the wrong shape, against a market where battery electric vehicles were 9.2% of August registrations.

The survey is at globalevalliance.com/survey-2026, and results from previous years are at survey.globalevalliance.com.