The Wellington City Council is beginning work on how to encourage the uptake of electric cars. Wellingtonians are already among the most sustainable transport users in NZ, with more people walking or taking public transport to work than any other city in New Zealand. There is a long way to go here, but this is a positive step to a more sustainable future.
I hope they work with the Hutt who are not always as quick at these things.
Woo hoo Wellington! Great idea
I hope someone tells them that an electric car uses many times its weight of oil to produce, that 40% of a vehicles emissions are during it’s construction, that it will do nothing for congestion, that 35% of NZ’s electrical production produces emissions and of this the coal plants produce air pollution and finaly that the Rare Earth Metals used in electric cars batteries are already running out, suprise, suprise since they are RARE Earth Metals…
I hope Labour and the WCC haven’t been sucked in by the electric car rhetoric being used to promote reckless State Highway spending..?
Yeah, giving electric cars the best parking spaces aint gonna make a bit of difference, you’ll find DPS cars parked in them all the time!
I think it’s a step in the right direction and they’ll refine and improve on the current electric cars.
I think Wellington and the GWRC are very complacent about PT use in Wgtn. They seem to be lacking a grand vision for changing the way people move around the city. This is most unlike Auckland where starting about 10 years ago the leaders of Auckland realised the city needs to go move in a very different direction and now talk about a ‘quantum shift’ in PT use. PT use in Auckland is growing very rapidly and will overtake wgtn within a decade. Sure Auckland has a far bigger population but wgtn has amazingly perfect geography to run PT so it is much simpler and easier. All wgtn seems to be doing is getting some new and long overdue emu’s, but are only buying enough to retire the oldest existing trains, and do not plan any serious frequency increase.