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APRIL 2021
THE TRUSTED VOICE OF THE AUTO INDUSTRY FOR MORE THAN 30 YEARS
Emissions of vehicles in fleet need tackling Industry organisation describes target for electric cars as ‘wishful thinking’ and price parity ‘overly optimistic’
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he Climate Change Commission is being urged to place more weight on tackling emissions created by vehicles already on New Zealand’s roads rather than simply focusing on what enters the fleet. Its draft advice, on which consultation has now closed, details action it believes needs to be taken to drastically reduce greenhouse gases (GHGs). The report follows the government committing itself to hitting net-zero emissions of longlived gases by 2050, and cutting biogenic methane emissions by between 24 and 47 per cent by the same year. Once again, the automotive industry is in the spotlight because proposals to hit targets mean the country would need to “almost completely decarbonise land transport”, according to the commission. Its pathway sees the ambitious adoption of electric vehicles (EVs)
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with no light vehicles with internal combustion engines (ICEs) being imported after 2032. This would mean more than half of all light-vehicle travel would be in EVs by 2035. In the past, the Motor Industry Association (MIA), Imported Motor Vehicle Industry Association (VIA) and Motor Trade Association (MTA) have criticised various
governments for focusing emissions policies on cars as they enter the fleet and not on those already in-service. The MIA describes the target of 50 per cent of vehicle imports to be electric by 2027 as “entering the realm of fantasy and wishful thinking”. It says projections for price parity with ICE vehicles are
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