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OFFER TO SWITCH SYDNEY BUSES TO EVS n Australian inventor and “I now live in Thailand, where I “Our driveline is motor agnostic; generally industrial designer has manufacture some of my inventions.” the motor will be supplied by the Aoffered the use of Saunders asks the NSW customer,” Saunders says. his EsDrive 1A Driveline Government to provide about Whatever range they would have to the New South Wales $40 million towards the rail line achieved with that motor would be Government to help switch restoration at the equivalent of increased 10-15% due to friction and 8000 Sydney buses to about $5000 in royalties per weight saving.” electric. bus. Saunders sees his proposal as a win all Congratulating NSW transport He includes a few other riders, around. minister Andrew Constance such as providing a $1m bond “It would be getting heaps of [the most on the “very progressive” Stuart Saunders for intellectual property rights in advanced] electric buses on the road and decision to convert the buses, the event confidential technical get the Northern Rivers line going again Stuart Saunders says his offer excludes details of his driveline are released. [with battery electric rail motors] providing a royalty or licensing fee. Instead, he’s Saunders also suggests the transport an hourly service with connection to asking the NSW Government to put department appoint up to two engineers Queensland Rail.” the royalties toward restoration of the to assist with the project. Saunders says it would form a coastal Murwillumbah to Casino (Northern Rivers) He says the EsDrive 1A would particularly line from Cairns to Perth via Byron railway line to form a continuous line from suit public transport because of its low Bay and the Great Australian Bight – Cairns to Perth. unsprung weight and high sprung/ transforming Australian rail sustainably Saunders tells EVtalk he grew up on the unsprung ratio providing a better ride for for locals and tourists. Tweed and trained with Leyland Australia, passengers over bumps as well as being He says the 8000 buses would also back in the days of the Leyland P76. “kinder” to the road. prove his EV driveline’s viability. PEER PRESSURE WOULD AID AUSTRALIAN EV UPTAKE

hat your friends and family 2020 which would “focus on think could influence whether practical actions to address Wyou buy an EV and what sort. barriers to EV uptake” and “Prevailing attitudes and social norms” support “Australians who choose are just as important as a vehicle to adopt new technologies”. purchase price, operating cost, range, However, EV sales targets are acceleration and emissions, according unlikely to be set. to Deakin University researcher James A Senate Committee chaired Davidson in his newly released report. by former independent senator “It doesn’t matter how good a vehicle Tim Storer recommended the is or how much it costs, if a potential federal government set targets buyer’s friends and family encourage it for commercial sales and as the right choice that will make the real government vehicles, along with difference.” vehicle emissions standards and are less likely to prefer EVs. The Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport a public awareness campaign to drive “My data showed that if driving is and Regional Economics forecasts 60% EV sales. someone’s preferred mode of transport of new cars sales would be electric by Electric Vehicle Council chief executive – as is common in Australia – they 2046, the Brisbane Times reports. Behyad Jafari agrees the federal are more price-sensitive and place a And it says an EV strategy is expected government should set an EV target. lower value on the attributes of electric to come from energy and emissions Davidson says his survey of about 500 vehicles than those who prefer other reduction minister Angus Taylor mid- Australians on EVs shows keen drivers modes of transport.”

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MOST AUSTRALIAN EVS USE RENEWABLE ELECTRICITY bout 75% of Australian and more than half of that through electric vehicles run on rooftop solar power, about 16% Arenewable energy and using a green power option, around half charge up using 25% a standard grid mix rooftop solar. which may include renewable So says Perth-based energy and 11% through professional services destination charging. for EV options and that their makers company Future Smart Wills is not surprised by tend to release them first in places with Strategies managing director his survey’s result, which Professor Ray Wills appropriate incentives. and EV advocate professor is supported by an Electric He also says a lack of support by Ray Wills, who lectures on climate and Vehicle Council Australia report last year the Australian federal government environmental change at the University of where more than half of the respondents around EVs is detrimental to Australian Western Australia. said they would use renewable energy consumers. About 400 Australian EV drivers responded resources if they wanted to charge an EV. Wills features in a recent podcast about to the Twitter poll where Wills asked where Wills’ Twitter thread includes much the expected impact on energy demand their EV charging power came from. more about EVs, including his belief of Australia’s move from a “dumb” Most say their EVs are charged at home that Australian motorists are starved power grid.

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EVTALK FEBRUARY 2020 | www.evtalk.com.au | 3 NEWSTALK EV SALES PLUNGE IN CHINA oronavirus is being partly blamed while sales of its internal combustion for China’s slump in EV sales, with engine (ICE) cars rose 18% in January Cvehicle stock and parts shortages – not the sort of trend people were expected elsewhere as a result of plant expecting, Forbes adds. closures. NIO reported just 1598 cars sold in The Chinese automakers’ association January, only 105 of which were its top-of- CPCA predicts the sale of new vehicles the-line ES8 SUVs. could fall by as much as 50% in Tesla sales figures for China are February, following a disastrous January unavailable, but CleanTechnica reports that saw sales plunge 20%, Forbes Tesla’s Shanghai plant was temporarily reports. And the market for EVs is closed due to the coronavirus outbreak. expected to be even worse. China was supposed to be EV boom BAIC was the top EV seller in China in heaven, but overseas media say it’s not shortages after many Chinese plants 2019, with its BJEV model outselling looking that way, especially after the appeared to have closed in response to any other electric car with 150,000 cars country reduced or removed government the virus. sold, but it posted a 54.5% year-on-year incentives for EV purchasers (mainly New Zealand Motor Industry Association decline in BEV sales in January, which short range ones) last year, prompting a chief executive David Crawford is Forbes describes as a “brutal” month for sales slump from which it appeared to be reported as expecting a new vehicle and China’s car industry. recovering until the coronavirus hit. parts shortage later this year as a result, BYD also posted a bad January, its EV That’s left new vehicle suppliers in New saying it will have a global impact. sales falling more than 68% in the month, Zealand and Australia bracing for stock LEAF FALLS IN JAPAN he Nissan Leaf had poor January sales in Japan. TIts sales were a low 753 units for the month – 73% less than a year ago (2833) and the lowest level for January ever, InsideEVs reports. That may have an impact on used Nissan Leaf imports from Japan to New Zealand. The cumulative Leaf sales in Japan amounted to 135,683, InsideEVs says, with nearly 20,000 sold in Japan in 2019. Nissan has announced that on the US market it is moving from monthly to quarterly sales reporting, in line with many other auto manufacturers. InsideEVs earlier reported Japan had The market share was just 0.8% (BEV) registrations in Norway during a surprisingly low rate of plug-in electric (compared to 1.0% in 2018, and 1.1% in January 2020. car adoption and disappointing sales 2017) – low compared to many other The Leaf’s 366 registrations were behind results. countries. the Hyundai Kona Electric, After a 7% decrease in 2018, in 2019 sales Nissan has announced upgrades to its e-Golf, Zoe and the top-of-the- decreased by another 17% year-over-year 2020 Leaf in Japan. table Audi e-tron (902) for the month. The to 43,867. Meanwhile, InsideEVs also reports the BMW i3 and Tesla Model 3 followed after Leaf was third in battery electric vehicle the Leaf.

4 | EVTALK FEBRUARY 2020 | www.evtalk.com.au NEWSTALK EVS RISE AND ICE SINKS 203% jump in Australian electric in China. “EV tech will flood into the UK and vehicles sales for 2019 is “If the Australian EV market had the same stimulate the British economy,” Jafari says. Awelcomed by the Electric Vehicle incentives and support as the EU and “UK consumers will have access to the Council (EVC). China, we would be talking about some latest and most affordable EV models, Newly released figures show 6718 EVs 50,000 new EVs on our roads. That and charging infrastructure will sold in Australia last year, up from 2216 in would actually start delivering proliferate. If we embarked on 2018, and that internal combustion engine significant benefit in terms similar policies the same thing (ICE) vehicle sales dropped by 7.8%. of cleaning our air, lowering would happen here.” New battery electric and plug-in hybrid our carbon emissions, and Jafari says the new sales electric vehicle sales climb while petrol lowering our dependence on figures show Australians are and diesel vehicle sales drop. While foreign oil.” enthusiastic early adopters. the trend is promising, it shows how far And it should be noted that “But if we had politics that really Australia could go if it supported the EV VFACTS figures don’t include Behyad Jafari backed the electrification of our industry like most other nations, EVC Tesla, which doesn’t report its fleet, and people understood chief executive Behyad Jafari says. sales yet accounts for a good the government was behind “The good news is that the number of proportion of the new EV market in the transition, we could be actively Australians buying EVs is surging despite Australia. The Tesla Model 3 has been transforming our cities and our economy. a lack of government incentives or selling well in Australia and the Model Y “Given that Australian decision makers support,” he says. is expected later this year. at all levels are eager to start taking “The bad news is that even with this Jafari points to British prime minister stronger action on climate change, strong growth, EVs still only represent Boris Johnson announcing the United transitioning away from combustion 0.6% of sales. That compares poorly to Kingdom will ban the sale of ICE vehicles engine vehicles would be an excellent 3.8% of sales in Europe and 4.7% of sales and hybrids by 2035. place to start.” ICE FALLS IN SWEDEN

nternal combustion engine (ICE) manufacturers and importers of cars, of a recalibrated bonus-malus (feebate) passenger vehicle sales in Sweden trucks and buses. incentive system for vehicle emissions Islid during January by nearly 40% The Tesla Model 3, Sweden’s top selling with increased taxes for polluters and year-on-year as the plug-in electric BEV in 2019, has yet to arrive there in as the new Europe-wide CO2 rules take vehicle (PHEV) market share rose 2020. effect, CleanTechnica reports. more than 30%, the trend expected to Sweden’s industry association expects Norway took four-and-a-half years to go continue. the full year 2020 EV market share to be from 11% EV market share to 40%, yet The most sought after EV models about 30%, reaching 40% in 2021. Sweden can do that in two years with in January included battery electric PHEVs took the biggest share of the EV more affordable EV varieties available, vehicles (BEVs) the Kia Niro, Kia Soul market at 23.1%, while BEVs got 7.1%. the report says. and Renault Zoe and PHEVs the Diesel sales more than halved, dropping Europe’s big five markets are already at Mitsubishi Outlander, Kia Optima and from 8113 sales in January 2019 to 3840 6% EV share and midsized markets like GTE, says BIL in January 2020 – a 21.6% market share. the Netherlands, Denmark, and Portugal Sweden – an industry organisation for Soaring EV sales come in the first month are higher.

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MERCEDES-BENZ EQC WINS CAR OF THE YEAR he Mercedes-Benz EQC is Wheels by an experienced judging panel makes Car of the Year 2020 at the this one of the world’s most respected TAustralian Motoring Awards in and coveted automotive awards, and also Melbourne. reflects the tastes and expectations of It is the first pure-electric series Australian consumers,” Mercedes-Benz production vehicle from Mercedes-Benz. Australia-Pacific chief executive and Its quality, safety, technology and managing director Horst von Sanden refinement are what the automotive says. judges deemed impressive, along with “The EQC represents one of the most its resolved electric drivetrain. This is the ambitious developments in Mercedes- third time in the award’s 57-year history Benz history. Our engineers designed that an electrified model range has won. not just our first series production “The Mercedes-Benz EQC was a clear electric vehicle, but a family-friendly winner,” Wheels editor Alex Inwood says. SUV for the 21st century that is a true “The EQC’s masterstroke is its stunning Mercedes-Benz in every sense. completeness. It was the safest car in “This award is an independent validation this year’s field and also one of the most of the thousands of hours in design refined.” and development, and millions of real It is the fourth time Mercedes-Benz has world and virtual kilometres in testing won the Wheels Car of the Year award, that ensure the EQC will delight our most recently in 2007 for its C-Class customers as much as it has impressed model. It also won in 1981 and 1999 with the Wheels judging panel.” the flagship S-Class. The Mercedes-Benz EQC 400 4MATIC motors, with a combined output of 300kW Mercedes-Benz has plans to offer seven went on sale in Australia in December of power and 760Nm of torque. electric models in the range in the future. 2019, with deliveries beginning early The 80kW/h battery delivers up to 43km “We are exceptionally proud to accept 2020. of driving range and takes 30 minutes to the Wheels Car of the Year award for It is a five-door, five-seat SUV fitted with be recharged to 220km at an ultra-rapid 2020. The rigorous testing undertaken front and rear asynchronous electric charging station.

EVTALK FEBRUARY 2020 | www.evtalk.com.au | 7 NEWSTALK CONSIDER HEAVY EVS, REFORM TOLD more detailed study of the opportunities and impacts of Aheavy electric vehicles should be included in the National Transport Regulatory Reform’s final report for the Australian Government, the Electric Vehicle Council Australia suggests. Other recommendations include further consultation with the heavy and electric vehicle industries about electrification and updating Australian Design Rules (ADRs) and in-service vehicle standards to allow for the uptake of new transport technologies such as electrification and automation. A harmonised national waiver scheme should be implemented for electric trucks that would permit higher mass vehicle limits compared to petrol and diesel counterparts, the EVC adds. to electrification, such as at current truck The EVC says increased use of electric And it also suggests heavy vehicle stops/fatigue check points.” trucks can have a positive impact on city regulation encourage collaboration The EVC concludes that EVs are a key planning and road infrastructure. across levels of government, to support player in reducing Australia’s transport “Low noise levels of electric trucks investment in EV charging infrastructure emissions. mean businesses can operate outside of and to ensure a consistent energy supply “Reducing Australia’s transport emissions existing curfews – improving transport for EVs. will decrease climate change impacts on logistics and reducing daytime road The EVC asks for ADRs be aligned the environment, facilitate cleaner and congestion. Zero emissions vehicles with international standards and ease healthier air quality, promote connected reduce carbon emissions and air current restrictive import regulations, and mobile communities, attract pollution, reducing the future impacts of also changing ADRs to regulate heavy investment, create jobs and stimulate new climate change.” vehicle emissions standards to Euro 6 industries,” the council says. The council points out the likes of IKEA specifications. Euro 6 emission standards “It is essential that road reform works to distributors such as ANC, All Purpose set by the European Union aim to reduce incentivise and accelerate electric vehicle Transport and Kings integrating EVs into levels of harmful car and van exhaust adoption in Australia.” their fleets to meet IKEA’s environmental emissions. EVs are penetrating every segment in the needs. The council points to 18.9% of all vehicle market, the council adds. “Other companies with electrification Australian greenhouse gas emissions “Consumer pressure for corporate action plans in Australia include Woolworths, coming from transport. on climate change is impacting the way DHL Express, Linfox and Australia Post. Road reform should include reference people travel, goods are distributed, and “Globally, companies include FedEx, to impacts of electric heavy transport on infrastructure is planned. Amazon, Walmart, Pepsi, Anheuser- driver and community health and safety, “Cities and countries are shifting Busch and BT Group. while telematics data should be stored away from including petrol and diesel, “Therefore, it is recommended that and shared to inform deployment of EV facilitating the uptake of electric vehicles further engagement with relevant charging infrastructure for a national EV across vehicle segments. stakeholders in the logistics and electric highway. “International trends show that vehicle industry form part of the reform “COAG and NHVR should work to expand sustainability policy in the corporate draft report review.” and supply key freight routes with EV sector is impacting fleet management charging technology to support transition decisions.

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AUSTRALIA SHOULD ALLOW ALL LOW EMISSION POWERTRAINS – FCAI trong federal and state government electric, hybrid, plug-in hybrid and encouragement of both CO2 hydrogen fuel cell vehicles. Stargets and the adoption of all It says the emphasis should be on low emission and energy efficient power outcomes, rather than mandating trains in the Australian market is sought specific technologies given Australia’s by the Federal Chamber of Automotive unique geography. Industries (FCAI). “To this point, the has Responding to reports of more stringent achieved significant gains in the increased EV uptake targets in the United Kingdom, efficiency of internal combustion petrol with hybrids added to a planned ban on and diesel engines and they will continue new fossil fuel car sales from 2035, the to play a significant role for many years to technology requires strong Government FCAI says robust targets for introducing come,” the FCAI says. support through the provision of low emission vehicles to Australia must “International studies have confirmed incentivisation, infrastructure, specific include all vehicle technologies – battery that the uptake of new low-emission emissions targets and high-quality fuel.” $200M ALUMINA PROJECT WILL SPARK EVS

lpha HPA – a $200 million, high for the Australian company as it purity alumina industrial plant progresses from a pilot plant to a A– will be based in Gladstone, large-scale advanced manufacturing Queensland. business. Sites were also considered in “The Gladstone site enables us Newcastle, New South Wales and to be within two kilometres of Kwinana, Western Australia. Orica, who we have signed a “High purity alumina is a rapidly-growing Memorandum of Understanding market, being fuelled by the rising with to be our supplier of key demand for high-technology items, such process reagents and the offtake as lithium-ion battery separators used of the by-product for the project, in electric vehicles, particularly in creating a circular economy China and Europe,” Queensland process,” he says. state development minister “A successful pilot plant Cameron Dick says. has been operating in A 9.2-hectare site in Brisbane since July the Gladstone State 2019, and using a low- Development Area owned cost extraction process Alpha HPA’s solvent extraction pilot by the state government has we are producing around been selected near the Port of 3kg daily of about 99.99% alumina, with circa 70 lithium ion battery Rimas Kairaitis Gladstone. pure alumina. mega-factories under construction across Alpha HPA managing director “We believe there is building four continents to meet the electric Rimas Kairaitis says it’s an exciting time global demand for our high purity vehicle demand.”

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FCEVS FIND FAVOUR ossil fuels have supplied much of hauling out hydrogen is extracting the world's energy requirements for it from natural gas. Nevertheless, Koyel Ghosh writes about Fmany years – but how long will that it can also be processed from various topics and has continue? water through electrolysis, or it been in the corporate Fuel cells are non-polluting and an can be formed biologically from industry three years alternative energy source, which has bacteria or algae. made the hydrogen economy a preferred Fuel cell technologies offer With a plethora of sources choice over traditional counterparts. economical as well as eco-friendly for hydrogen production, A hydrogen fuel cell generates two by solutions to our energy needs. Hydrogen, the US has the power and faculty to products - water and heat. And, that’s as an effective energy storage medium, generate viable energy in a streamlined the reason no carbon is produced when can always be utilised for energy. and profitable manner, while reducing electricity is whipped up in a fuel cell. A Fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs) do dependence on fossil fuels. number of studies reveal that if most of not require standard traditional fuels Hydrogen fuel cells are unsullied and the cars on the road are powered by a such as gas or oil, and thus can reduce efficient, especially when compared with hydrogen fuel cell, the amount of smog in economic dependence on oil producing conventional power plants, and can also many US cities, most of which originates countries, generating greater energy be well-utilised in mobile applications to from vehicle emissions, is quite likely to security for user countries. power up vehicles. dissolve. Nowadays, most internal ignition motors According to Allied Market Research, There is around 75% hydrogen in the set off with a coherence around 25%, the global hydrogen fuel cell vehicle universe we reside in. However, the where power plants tend to bring around market is expected to grow at a Earth’s surface has only a little amount of 35% efficiency. A stationary fuel cell, significant compound annual growth its purest form. when employed in a joint power and heat rate (CAGR) through to 2023. A rise in environmental concerns, and several initiatives taken by government bodies for further improvement of hydrogen fuel cell infrastructure are driving the growth of the market. On the other hand, high investment in infrastructure is expected to curb that growth to some extent. However, high-end advancement in technology can usher in a plethora of opportunities for the industry. Briefly, hydrogen fuel cell motors can be defined as a device that produces electricity from hydrogen while the vehicle is in motion. FCEVs don’t tend to generate any greenhouse gases, and that’s where these vehicles are different from petrol The global FCEV market is expected to reach US$12,133 million by 2023 and diesel-powered motors. Usually, hydrogen gas subsists as H2 system, can have an efficacy level of The amazing potential of hydrogen particles, in which two hydrogen atoms greater than 80%. fuel cell vehicles to reduce transport are caprioled together. Hydrogen gas Hydrogen can be sustainable and emissions propels the market growth in easily glides through the top of the Earth's inexhaustible. It can also be formed by more than one way. firmament and breaks free into space. leftover materials, biomass, airstream, To conclude, the market FCEV market is Various procedures can be deployed solar energy, sinuous or streaming wave, growing fast and it is projected to expand to yield pure hydrogen from particles and geothermal. Production technology even more in the next few years. that contain hydrogen as their prime takes in epilation of water, steam Visit https://www.alliedmarketresearch. component. restructuring of natural gas, biochemical com/hydrogen-fuel-cell-vehicle-market By far, the most common process of production, and organic gasification. for more information. AU EV INDUSTRY NEWS Register for FREE news updates - Receive twice-weekly news alerts to your email www.evtalk.com.au

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AUSTRALIAN EV SALES SOAR

Tesla sells well in Australia, the Model Y due possibly later this year.

ew battery electric and plug-in comparisons. financial, international and political issues hybrid electric vehicle sales climb A more modest rise for hybrids is facing Australia during January, it is no Nwhile petrol and diesel vehicle recorded in the private passenger surprise to see the new vehicle market sales drop. category – up 41.4% (603 to 853) and the has reported a conservative start to the The continuing Australia vehicle market non-private market – 1.6% (1054 to 1071). year,” he says. trend is again illustrated in VFACTs The ICE market has dived, recording was the market leader in January January sales figures released by drops of anywhere from 7% to 38.1%, the with 14,809 sales and 20.6% market the Federal Chamber of Automotive only increases a measly 1.4% for petrol share. Industries (FCAI), now extending into non-private SUVs and 12.3% for petrol The Toyota Hilux, with 2968 sales, again 22 months of a decline in sales of new light commercial private vehicles. claimed the title of Australia’s best-selling internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles. Yet EVs don’t rate a mention in FCAI chief vehicle, closely followed by the Ford Private passenger electric/PHEV sales executive Tony Weber’s comment on the Ranger with 2624 sales. have risen 54.5% in January 2020 and sales result. Visit www.fcai.com.au for more 2019 comparisons, from 22 to 34, while “Given the broad range of environmental, information. non-private passenger electric/ PHEV sales have rocketed 180.8% from 26 in January 2019 to 73 last NEW VEHICLE SALES BY BUYER TYPE AND FUEL TYPE JANUARY 2020 month. Month YTD Variance +/- Vol. & % In the popular SUV sector, private electric/PHEV sales have risen 218% Total Market 2019 2018 2019 2018 MTH YTD MTH YTD (16 to 51) and non-private sales have ELECTRIC gone up 34.5% (29 to 39). Passenger Private 34 22 34 22 12 12 54.5% 54.5% Electrics and PHEVs also account Passenger Non- 73 26 73 26 47 47 180.8% 180.8% for a doubling of sales from two Private in January 2019 to four in January SUV Private 51 16 51 16 35 35 218.8% 218.8% 2020. SUV Non-Private 39 29 39 29 10 10 34.5% 34.5% And it should be noted that Light Commercial 4 2 4 2 2 2 100.0% 100.0% VFACTS figures don’t include Non-Private Tesla, which doesn’t report its Sub Total 201 95 201 95 106 106 111.6% 111.6% sales yet accounts for a good HYBRID proportion of the new EV market in Australia. Passenger Private 853 603 853 603 250 250 41.5% 41.5% Passenger Non- Hybrids are also packing a heavy 1,071 1,054 1,071 1,054 17 17 1.6% 1.6% sales punch, particularly in the Private SUV category – 963% up (54 to SUV Private 902 54 902 54 848 848 >999% >999% 574) in the non-private area and SUV Non-Private 574 54 574 54 520 520 963.0% 963.0% more than 999% (54 to 902) in Sub Total 3,400 1,765 3,400 1,765 1,635 1,635 92.6% 92.6% the private sector in the January TOTAL 3,601 1,860 3,601 1,860 1,741 1,741 93.6% 93.6%

EVTALK FEBRUARY 2020 | www.evtalk.com.au | 11 ACROSS THE DITCH EVS HIT 19,285 V registrations climbed 593 on December’s E18,692 to reach 19,285 in January 2020. Used light pure electrics continue to lead the pack, the latest Ministry of Transport EV registration figures showing 10,514 in January, up 291 on the previous month’s 10,223. New light pure electrics are next up with 4011 registrations, a 139 increase on December’s 3872. For the plug-in hybrid (PHEV) market, it’s the other way around with new PHEVs leading on 2969 – up 89 on December’s 2880. In the used PHEV category, the figures show January’s 1616 is 74 up on 1542 for the prior month. Heavy EV registrations remain unchanged at 175.

E-BIKE TRIAL FOR NEW ZEALAND POLICE ew Zealand Police in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, and NDunedin will begin a four-week trial of patrolling the cities on electric bikes (e-Bike) from February 12. Sergeant Hamish Knight told Stuff that officers would carry out city patrols on the e-bikes just as they would on foot or in a police vehicle. Stuff reports that the New Zealand Transport Agency contributed $70,000 to the trial so that each police officer involved in the trail will receive an e-bike, sunglasses, gloves, shoes, cycle shorts, a fluoro vest and a helmet. Acting national road policing manager Inspector Gini Welch told Stuff that having officers on e-bikes gives increased visibility of police in the community, as well as making them more accessible and contributing to the public feeling safe and being safe.

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MITO LAUNCHES NEW EV PROGRAMME ITO, the industry training organisation for the New MZealand automotive industry, has released a new programme providing practical skills and knowledge to work with electric vehicles. The Working Safely with Electric Vehicles Micro-credential (level 4) allows those to work safely and effectively on or around hybrid electric and battery electric vehicles or machines. “With increasing numbers of electric vehicles (EVs) on New Zealand roads, it is vitally important that those working with them have a fundamental understanding remain safe in their work,” MITO chief programme in early 2019, we’re pleased of any EV’s high voltage systems in order executive Janet Lane says. to be able to provide an introductory to mitigate the risk of severe electric “After the release of MITO’s New programme available to all those shock and to ensure they are able to Zealand Certificate in Electric Vehicle employed in the automotive industry – Automotive Engineering (Level 5) not just qualified technicians.” WAITOMO AND HIRINGA PARTNER ON HYDROGEN NETWORK uel retailer Waitomo Group is partnering with Hiringa Energy Fto develop New Zealand’s first nationwide hydrogen refuelling station network. Taranaki-based Hiringa Energy is the first company in New Zealand dedicated to the supply of green hydrogen, providing solutions for industry, the public sector, and transport operators. Together the two companies will work on the detailed engineering requirements and consenting for a network of hydrogen refuelling sites – some of which will be on existing Waitomo fuel stops. Initial locations have been selected, with plans for a further 20 stations to be developed across both the North and South Island. Hiringa Energy chief executive and partnership with Waitomo brings together the development of hydrogen as a viable co-founder Andrew Clennett says the the complementary skills and strengths of alternative commercial fuel source. two companies to provide leadership in

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