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Drive Electric Submission on the Emissions Reduction Plan Discussion Document

Drive Electric

In New Zealand’s fight against climate change, e-mobility is a low-hanging fruit, especially given our supply of renewable energy. . Moving to zero emissions vehicles, as the cliche goes, is the low hanging fruit in the fight against climate change. . Scrappage schemes . We also don’t need to ‘reinvent the wheel’.

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US set to get car scrappage scheme

Green Cars News

The US is set to be the next country to introduce a car scrappage scheme, the Financial Times reports. It will form part of the Obama administration’s Climate Change Bill, of which draft legislation announced on Tuesday is an amended version to permit foreign as well as domestic vehicles into the scheme, no matter where they are built.