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FermerPousser pour WDC pour obtenir une flotte de véhicules électriques
Par Mike Dinsdale
16:00 mardi 28 mars 20178 commentaires
Le conseil de district de Whangarei pourrait économiser de l'argent si le conseiller Stu Bell appuie une résolution pour changer sa flotte sur les véhicules électriques et étendre les stations de recharge EV dans l'ensemble du district.
Mais encore plus important encore, le déménagement sera bon pour le pays et l'environnement, a déclaré M. Bell, devant une réunion jeudi pour discuter du plan.
M. Bell a présenté un avis de motion qui a été accepté pour examen lors de la réunion plénière du conseil de jeudi.
Il va proposer que, avant le 30 juin, le conseil adopte une politique de «premier véhicule électrique» pour modifier, dans la mesure du possible, sa flotte de véhicules à la batterie complète et aux véhicules électriques hybrides enfichés, car ses véhicules à essence sont destinés à être remplacés.
And also that the council applies to the Low Emission Vehicles Contestable fund to assist with the development of infrastructure within the district to encourage, accelerate and support the uptake of electric vehicles by businesses and private individuals.
Mr Bell said he believed his fellow councillors would support the motion as it "just makes sense".
The Greater Wellington Regional Council is the first local body in the country to look at electrifying its entire vehicle fleet as a way of reducing climate change emissions and the Government has set a target to have 64,000 electric vehicles in NZ by 2021.
Mr Bell said he wasn't urging the council to immediately buy a new fleet of EVs, but to replace its vehicles with EVs when it is time to renew them.
Mr Bell wasn't exactly sure how much WDC's fuel bill was or how much going to EVs would save overall, but said research showed that while EVs were initially more expensive, they were very cheap to run and made huge savings over the life of the vehicle.
Greater Wellington Regional Council found that the cost of fuel for the typical life of a vehicle in its fleet was $15,000, but that would be down to $2000 for an equivalent EV.
"We have half a dozen vehicles due for replacement in the next 12 months and, if we can, I'd like to see us replace them with EVs,"Mr Bell said.
"It's also about the council leading by example in the community. EV technology is advancing so quickly and we should be taking a lead on this. It will lead to savings for council in the long term but ultimately will be good for New Zealand and our environment.
"Climate change is real and we have to think about the legacy we are leaving for our children, and their children and their children's children."
The second part of his motion, if passed, would see the council apply for funding which may see a network of EV charging stations across the district.
There are around 20 EV charging stations in Northland, including around 10 in Whangarei, although only two of those are 'fast charge' stations that can charge an EV in less than 30 minutes.
By Mike Dinsdale
8 comments
Do your local rich Gang Members drive them? (They live Up North for the Green Climate.)
Sale of the week!!!!
regardless the environmental positive effect of electric vehicles , it seems that people forget where the electricity comes from ? NZ is already very INEFFICIENT in electricity use for heating , cooking and hot water , so building new power plants is the way GOVT thinks about electric cars. Also 30 % or more of NZ renewable electricity is already wasted before it gets to your homes !!!! How sustainable is that ? just putting more electric vehicles on the road is not the best advice at the moment .....energy efficiency first on all levels please ! gas cooking, gas hot water , solar hot water state of the art , and than electric vehicles to use the left overs from the actual power plants . GOVT wants to think NZ is already renewable but the facts are that in overall energy picture NZ is only 18 % renewable because of 70 % geo, hydro and some wind power plants for electricity. More electric cars mean more power plants to built....unless we have more solar power or the roof ( like me )> so I challenge you to bring this point to a more realistic scenario . Eric Jansseune - master environmental engineer- Positive energy house Kaiwaka cell 021 202 31 700 www.ewatec-global.com
Electric cars do nothing but appease the "Green" movement, who wallow in the comfort of a "Clean NZ" while the nastiest of the production process for EV's happens far away and out of sight
We bought an EV just over a year ago and wish we had done so much earlier. You just can't imagine how peppy they are and how cheap they are to run. The maintenance is almost non-existent.
We have a night-time electric meter which costs less than half price of normal electricity but it only runs from 11:00 PM to 7:00 AM . We run our hot water heater off it, our pool pump and charge the EV and our electric bill for that meter is $33 a month!
Le raffinage d'un litre d'essence consomme effectivement plus d'électricité que ce qu'un EV utilise pour conduire la même distance que la voiture normale pourrait faire sur ce litre d'essence.
Si la Nouvelle-Zélande convertit toutes ses automobiles en électricité, elle économisera réellement l'électricité.
L'utilisation d'essence pour les véhicules lourds comme les camions à ordures qui doivent s'arrêter tous les 20 mètres est particulièrement inefficace. Les villes du monde entier convertissent les bus en voiture électrique - ils ne peuvent pas tous se tromper, peuvent-ils?