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Electric Transport NZ

1/5/2015

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Are we getting close to a breakthrough?

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New Zealand's problem is that, unlike most countries, we already do not burn much coal for electrical energy. This means that we do not have a simple quick fix to reduce our emissions as we only have transport left to clean up our performance. 
As New Zealand is now on the UN council we have to put up an honourable performance in the Paris talks later this year and can not sit at the back of of the room and dodge the issue.
We have a massive abundance of clean renewable energy, an oil import of $5 billion a year and every car produces two tons of CO2 a year. 
This is all pointing in one direction and only needs a bit of help to make big savings.
If the government converted as much of its transport fleet to electric and gave a bit of help with infrastructure and with imports of electric transport we would be on our way.

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Bob Bristow
6/5/2015 05:54:46 am

I was very impressed to read that Vector has signed a partnership with TESLA and are bringing the recent battery technology to the land of the Long White Cloud. - That's great news, and hope to see a flourishing market on Electric Vehicles spring up soon.

"New Zealand electricity network operator Vector has signed a partnership to bring the Tesla battery storage devices to its home market in Auckland,"

http://reneweconomy.com.au/2015/vector-to-deploy-tesla-storage-as-australian-utilities-weigh-options-68927

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