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Speaker 1: Byd as in the Chinese ev maker are telling us

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Speaker 1: they are selling cars as fast as they sold eighty

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Speaker 1: on Saturday. Warren Wilmot as by these general manager and

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Speaker 1: us with.

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Speaker 2: Us Warren morning, good morning mate.

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Speaker 1: Eighty as opposed to what.

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Speaker 2: Well, typically on Saturday we'd probably do between twenty and

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Speaker 2: twenty five across the country.

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Speaker 1: So they think thats on serious increase.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, And our Australian friends are doing even better. They

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Speaker 2: sold nine hundred and two on Saturday, which is just incredible.

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Speaker 1: Hybrids or BEVs, well both.

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Speaker 2: Actually we're quite fortunate that our hybrids are super hybrids,

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Speaker 2: so you can have beasts of both worlds.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So I was told in general that what people

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Speaker 1: do when they going to a full BEV is they

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Speaker 1: think about it. They work through it, They work through

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Speaker 1: whether they can charge it properly, whether it fits their lifestyle,

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Speaker 1: blah blah blah. They don't come in because the price

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Speaker 1: of oil has suddenly gone up and go I'll have

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Speaker 1: a BEV. Or Am I wrong in saying that?

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Speaker 2: Well, I think you're probably a right. A lot of

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Speaker 2: people do their research first, but I think what's happened

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Speaker 2: is people have been have been on the fence about

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Speaker 2: buying a new car at taking this moment now to

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Speaker 2: actually go and do that. They're doing their research. But

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Speaker 2: the thing is, our super hybrids are a step into

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Speaker 2: into a full bed. So on our seat L one

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Speaker 2: eight you can get one hundred and fifty k's range

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Speaker 2: on EV and then a thousand k's range and hybrid

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Speaker 2: mode and you never have to charge it. So we're

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Speaker 2: seeing a big uptake in the super vibrance.

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Speaker 1: So what you needed was not a government subsidy. You

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Speaker 1: needed a war, and the war got people and this

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Speaker 1: could be a tipping point.

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Speaker 2: Well, you know, fuel prices are good for no one,

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Speaker 2: so I mean it's good for our busess, but ultimately everything,

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Speaker 2: the price of everything's going to raise. I think you know,

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Speaker 2: the Clean Cars of subsidy was a great thing to

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Speaker 2: get byd into New Zealand. It probably wouldn't have been

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Speaker 2: here when it did we didn't have that subsidy. But

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Speaker 2: even better is the Clean Car Standard, which helps us

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Speaker 2: encourage by to bring new technology to New Zealand, like

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Speaker 2: vehicle to grid, like cards that can charge in four

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Speaker 2: minutes time, like connect the car services.

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Speaker 1: Interesting Warren, nice to talk to you appreciate it. Warren

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Speaker 1: will not. You can't argue with. So he's doing twenty five,

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Speaker 1: they're doing eighty, So that's material. It's real interesting. Also

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Speaker 1: over the weekend, HONDRAA and Outside a couple of new

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Speaker 1: bebs coming, and a Kura RSX was going to start

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Speaker 1: production this year. They pulled the pin on all of

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Speaker 1: them once again because the bottom line, the US doesn't

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Speaker 1: want vibs and they're not interested, and they may or

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Speaker 1: may not be, but maybe this is a little bit

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Speaker 1: of a tipping point.

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