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Speaker 1: New insight also into our EV market and demand for

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Speaker 1: electric transport. These are figures from B and I Research.

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Speaker 1: Total decline in sales here will be two thirds. That's

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Speaker 1: nearly eleven thousand cars not sold. Auckland City Electric Vehicles

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Speaker 1: Director Greg Larson's with us on this Greg Morning.

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Speaker 2: To you, Mike, how are you very well?

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Speaker 1: Indeed, the EV market versus the general car market? Can

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Speaker 1: we differentiate at the moment between the two given the

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Speaker 1: economic circumstances or not?

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Speaker 2: Well? Not really. I think some of the statistics that

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Speaker 2: we're shown in that article really takes in EV's reduction

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Speaker 2: and ice cars reduction together. Really.

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Speaker 1: One thing that worries me, does it worry you? Is

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Speaker 1: too much reportage is lumping hybrids with bebs together. They're

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Speaker 1: not the same thing, and I'm not sure people understand

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Speaker 1: they're not the same thing.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you're quite right, So they aren't the same thing.

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Speaker 2: And the government have done their calculations on how to

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Speaker 2: put road user charges against those two vehicles, and I

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Speaker 2: think even they've admitted that they've got the caculation wrong.

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Speaker 1: No, is that going to change next year? In other words,

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Speaker 1: are people are going to sort of be up to

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Speaker 1: speed they'll get the rock story, they'll understand what's right,

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Speaker 1: what's good for them, bad, whatever, and it'll sort itself

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Speaker 1: out in the end.

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Speaker 2: Well, I hope. So there'll be road user chases on

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Speaker 2: ice cars next year. That's what the indications are. But

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Speaker 2: I think the lack of education in the market is

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Speaker 2: probably what's really confused buyers at the moment.

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Speaker 1: Do you worry as an EV seller the international problem

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Speaker 1: at the moment, which is virtually every manufacturer going whoops,

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Speaker 1: let's pull back a little bit. In other words, it's

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Speaker 1: not quite the avalanche we thought it was going to be.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a really good question. I think you've had

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Speaker 2: somebody on You'll Show a few months ago from Ford

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Speaker 2: a key with It's working in marketing. I think now

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Speaker 2: her thoughts were really valid. And the fact is every

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Speaker 2: manufacturer is going down the EV track. I just think

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Speaker 2: we're probably gone too fast.

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Speaker 1: Insane and well, and I will.

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Speaker 2: Definitely get there. Our manufacturers are hitting us in that direction.

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Speaker 2: We have no choice of really what vehicles we're going

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Speaker 2: to be supplied in three or four years time.

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Speaker 1: No, exactly. Greg Nice Insight appreciate it as always Greg Larsen,

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