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Speaker 1: Government wants to double ev charging points via interest free loans.

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Speaker 1: An extra two and a half thousand is what we promised.

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Speaker 1: Fifty two million and zero interest loans on the table,

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Speaker 1: plus another sixty million from charge Net and Meridian. Greg

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Speaker 1: IPPs is Important Vehicle Association CEO with me live this morning.

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Speaker 2: Greg. Good morning, Morny Ryan. How's it going very well?

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Speaker 1: Thank you. Is this a doable plan?

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Speaker 2: I think so. I mean, I think the great thing

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Speaker 2: that has happened here is that the government has actually

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Speaker 2: spent over the last year or so working with industry.

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Speaker 2: There's been an industry stakeholder group that has come together

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Speaker 2: on a regular basis to talk about how these things

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Speaker 2: could be done. There's been a really good survey done

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Speaker 2: of how many charges are out there and where the

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Speaker 2: gaps might be. So this is really a good step

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Speaker 2: towards plugging the gaps there.

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Speaker 1: Do you think that from a consumer point of view?

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Speaker 1: Is that the biggest problem that I think I'm not

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Speaker 1: going to be able to charge it. There's not going

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Speaker 1: to be enough.

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Speaker 2: I think there's a few things. I mean, I think

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Speaker 2: solving our transport problems I've described as being like a triathlon.

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Speaker 2: You know, you need to actually try and have a

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Speaker 2: few sets of skills there. People are worried about charging

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Speaker 2: infrastructure and so being able to show people that if

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Speaker 2: you have an EV you can get anywhere. I think,

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Speaker 2: you know, there's always the price hurdle to get over,

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Speaker 2: and there's also a bit of a supply hurdle because

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Speaker 2: there's you know, every country out there is trying to

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Speaker 2: get hold of these vehicles, and so for us to

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Speaker 2: be able to get them at prices we can afford

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Speaker 2: is always going to be an issue too. But for

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Speaker 2: people who are looking and can afford, having the knowledge

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Speaker 2: that there's good charging network out there, I think will help.

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Speaker 1: The other thing is just the price of them of

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Speaker 1: buying an EV is normally more, normally more expensive than

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Speaker 1: a combustion engine.

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Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, but you know, some of the newer vehicles

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Speaker 2: come and it really depends on the family circumstance or

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Speaker 2: the small business circumstance. There are some evs that are

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Speaker 2: coming in at around thirty thousand or in that thirty

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Speaker 2: thousand range. Now that's a price that I think some

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Speaker 2: corporates and small businesses could afford, or some of the

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Speaker 2: families who are better off. My members are independent importers

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Speaker 2: and they're bringing in used imports and we know that

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Speaker 2: those vehicles are really heading in the space for a

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Speaker 2: lot of Kiwi families. Now, we don't have a lot

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Speaker 2: of evs available in Japan to bring in. So it's

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Speaker 2: like I said, it's a triathlon. There needs to be

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Speaker 2: people who are good at the running and the swimming

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Speaker 2: and people who are good at the cycling. We bring

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Speaker 2: them all together and we can solve the transport problem.

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Speaker 2: So you know we're hitting the affordable space. We really

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Speaker 2: need the new car industry to be bringing in the

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Speaker 2: new technology.

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Speaker 1: GRIG. It's important Vehicle associations, So good to have you

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Speaker 1: on the show. As always.

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