National and ACT reaffirm plans to cancel Clean Car Discount • Autotalk
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National and ACT have both reaffirmed their previously announced plans to cancel the Clean Car Discount, a decision highlighted during a political debate last night. This announcement took place at the Motor Trade Association’s political debate, which was held online in Wellington. Moderated by TV political journalist Lloyd Burr, the panel consisted of National transport […]

I'm curious to know what others think of this.

I'm personally for keeping it as I see the benefit coming in a few years having many more EV's available in the second hand market. Currently it's pretty much dominated by mainly Nissan Leaf's at the lower end of the secondhand market.

I know of a few people as well who have bought EV/Hybrids recently that would not have even considered going for EV's or even hybrids without the rebate.

  • NoRamyunForYou@lemmy.nz
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    1 year ago

    For us (and possibly many others), our decision at this point in time probably hinges a lot on the Rebate. Neither of us have bought a new car before, so it feels like quite an investment to make that (along with a few other factors) we could only really justify with the lower price.

    Also, how are you liking your new Leaf? I did do a bit of looking into it recently as a potential option.

    If you don't mind me asking, did you go for the Long Range package?, and why or why not?

    • eagleeyedtiger@lemmy.nz
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      1 year ago

      Oops I wasn't too clear, but we got an imported second hand 2018 40kwh Leaf. We were tossing up between going for a new car (MG4) and going second hand. Decided it wasn't worth it even with full rebate right now for something we were planning to use just around town and for my partner to go to work. Our actual plan was to go second hand and get solar installed, which would have cost less than the new car. The roof maintenance issues threw a spanner into the works so we're not doing solar for now.

      I've never bought a new car either and this is actually the most expensive car I've ever bought. Accounting for the rebate and selling the old ICE car, the Leaf cost us around $18.5k. When there are a more extended range second hand EV's for sale will be when we trade up the old hybrid.

      We like the car a lot, but I will say if we only had one car the Leaf wouldn't be my first choice due to the lack of active battery cooling and battery degradation. As it stands the range on it for around town use will last us a long time even with degradation. It was advertised as 89% SOH and it still shows the full 12 bars. I'm just waiting on my ODBII dongle to arrive so I can check and monitor battery health.