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#3373749 16-May-2025 14:25

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Now that Honda e:n1 is about to arrive in NZ - at an apparently good price - how would you compare it with a BYD Extended range? BYD has their (better) Blade battery technology, but apart from that??

Have they said what Battery Tech they are using in the Honda? Is it LFP or NMC?

The motor is juiced by a 96-cell 68.8 kWh nickel manganese cobalt (NMC) battery

https://paultan.org/2025/05/15/honda-en1-launched-in-malaysia-204-ps-310-nm-ev-hr-v-with-412-km-wltp-range-one-variant-rm149900/

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#3373752 16-May-2025 14:39

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"The e:N1 will be sold in New Zealand in a single specification, priced from $52,000 plus on-road costs.

This sees the model undercut a range of other similarly sized EVs from other legacy carmakers, like the $55,520 Kia EV3, $69,990 Jeep Avenger, and $74,990 Volvo EX30. The e:N1’s pricing sits closer to Chinese opposition, namely the $51,990 BYD Atto 3 and $51,990 Geely EX5."

https://www.stuff.co.nz/motoring/360689914/honda-confirms-price-its-first-nz-bound-electric-car

Charge speed seems very low. 40 mins for 30% to 80% - That is below a 1C rate.

Not like the leaf and not cooling it are they?

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#3373769 16-May-2025 16:39

tdgeek:

The motor is juiced by a 96-cell 68.8 kWh nickel manganese cobalt (NMC) battery

https://paultan.org/2025/05/15/honda-en1-launched-in-malaysia-204-ps-310-nm-ev-hr-v-with-412-km-wltp-range-one-variant-rm149900/

Shame, that's a deal killer for me.

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#3373844 16-May-2025 21:49

I'd prefer a proven BYD over an unknown Honda EV any day. It will be Honda getting their pencils out first imo. I'm not expecting a big impact.

For someone already buying from Honda it will be an easy add.

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#3373851 16-May-2025 22:51

A fair bit of marketing BS

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#3386552 24-Jun-2025 09:24

The trickle of infrastructure investment continues despite big talk of "growth growth growth" and election promises in 2023 of $257M in funding for EV chargers.
https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/06/24/170m-promised-for-ev-chargers-yet-to-materialise/

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#3386585 24-Jun-2025 11:01

fastbike:

The trickle of infrastructure investment continues despite big talk of "growth growth growth" and election promises in 2023 of $257M in funding for EV chargers.
https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/06/24/170m-promised-for-ev-chargers-yet-to-materialise/

But I was told that this was what was going to make EV adoption really take off, not like that stank EV rebate thing which didn't encourage EVs at all.

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#3386593 24-Jun-2025 11:49

SaltyNZ:

But I was told that this was what was going to make EV adoption really take off, not like that stank EV rebate thing which didn't encourage EVs at all.

Hard to say. On the one hand shiny new expensive long range EVs probably don't need as much infrastructure as they can travel longer distance and charge faster. However they are not affordable for a majority of vehicle owners so more infrastructure is required to encourage adoption.

On the other hand a feebate system does help to change buying behavior and once the demand is there the market typically provides the goods.

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#3386594 24-Jun-2025 12:01

fastbike:

On the other hand a feebate system does help to change buying behavior and once the demand is there the market typically provides the goods.

Yeah, that's where I stand on this issue. The Invisible Hand of the Free Market is not, as David Seymour believes, the true god that will save us all, but it can (and arguably does) certainly drive commercial outfits to provide charging networks they can make money off of. At least now that there's a critical mass of EVs on the road.

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#3386609 24-Jun-2025 12:30

fastbike:

On the other hand a feebate system does help to change buying behavior and once the demand is there the market typically provides the goods.

If a feebate system is what we had under the previous government then yes it certainly did, in that a load of crap vehicles were brought into the country that would otherwise be viable. I remember seeing auctions on Trade Me for 3 to 4 bar Leafs that made sense only because they could be bought for less than the rebate.

EVs, both new and second hand, are substantially cheaper these days.

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#3386851 24-Jun-2025 20:55

Basil12:

fastbike:

On the other hand a feebate system does help to change buying behavior and once the demand is there the market typically provides the goods.

If a feebate system is what we had under the previous government then yes it certainly did, in that a load of crap vehicles were brought into the country that would otherwise be viable. I remember seeing auctions on Trade Me for 3 to 4 bar Leafs that made sense only because they could be bought for less than the rebate.

EVs, both new and second hand, are substantially cheaper these days.

All the more so, once the used Japanese EV car market becomes even more of a thing. Even though the Japanese are still bigger on hybrids than EVs.

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#3387340 26-Jun-2025 22:18

Polestar 2 got an OTA upgrade today, from 3.4.4 to 3.6.4.

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#3387459 27-Jun-2025 07:20

Basil12:

I remember seeing auctions on Trade Me for 3 to 4 bar Leafs that made sense only because they could be bought for less than the rebate.

I don't see how that could be the case as I looked into importing a Leaf last year and the overhead costs would certainly have exceeded any rebate previously available even for a crapped out vehicle.

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#3387460 27-Jun-2025 07:43

fastbike:

Basil12:

I remember seeing auctions on Trade Me for 3 to 4 bar Leafs that made sense only because they could be bought for less than the rebate.

I don't see how that could be the case as I looked into importing a Leaf last year and the overhead costs would certainly have exceeded any rebate previously available even for a crapped out vehicle.

I suspect Basil is conflating cheap second hand Leafs listed on Trade Me with newly imported Leafs. The rebate only applied to EVs on their first registration/owner in NZ so the end of life ones being flicked off on TM didn't qualify.

Granted the rebate made for some good value EVs on the lower end of the market. We updated our 1st gen 24kWh Leaf to a 30kWh with more practical range just before the CCD was canned for that reason. $6,000 to update in our case. So much for the CCD benefitting only rich folk.

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#3388069 29-Jun-2025 16:39

Honda Super EV Concept looks cool. Replacement for the Honda e we never received in NZ. Wonder if we'll get it this time?

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