Welcome to the March 2022 EVs and Beyond magazine
Fuel price rises are impacting Kiwis, but there’s a silver lining!
More are looking to EVs and e-mobility as a result.
EV dealerships are enjoying boom times – you can read their views and expectations in this issue, and how they are also witnessing customer squabbles over EVs.
Then there’s the final Clean Car package due to be implemented from April 1, which we cover – including Phill Haynes’ expert advice.
Dunedin’s Emma Gilmour is off to the next round of the Extreme E electric off-road series as a McLaren driver. You can read what she thinks of her chances and the growing electric motorsport field.
We check out the new Tesla Model 3, a South Island orchard that’s shocking the world in horticulture’s electrification (it’s also getting one of the first electric, driver-optional tractors), and how COVID has impacted the likes of EVolocity.
Our micromobilty section also covers a survey showing more e-mobility users are likely to ditch their ICE cars.
In solar news we consider how sun farming is taking off in New Zealand.
Plus we study plans by WEL Networks and Infratec to build New Zealand’s largest battery storage facility – expected to offset the Huntly Power Station’s shift away from coal.
Then there’s our dealer pages to browse for that new or secondhand EV, the usual columns and a whole lot more for your EV edification.
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