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Then again in November 2025.(Which included slashing the penalty by 80%)
https://www.stuff.co.nz/motoring/360888930/its-about-get-cheaper-import-dirty-cars-climate-impact-negligible
Now in March 2026, It has come out that recent consultation asked if the standard should be abolished.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/588668/government-considering-scrapping-entire-clean-car-standard
Ignoring the current timing and the middle east conflict (the consultation would have happened before this), the sheer amount of changes must make business decisions extremely difficult for the auto industry. Three large changes in less than two years...
The guts of Fleet average standards like this, is that auto importers who want to sell high emitting (and often high margin) vehicles need to sell a bunch of low emitting vehicles to hit the average (or pay a fine). Logical outcome is that importers increase the price of their high emitting cars, and use some of that money to cross subsidies lower emissions vehicles. I.e. Nissan build $15k into the price of an v8 Nissan Patrol, and use that money to cut the price of three Ariya's by $5k each, as to generate sales of the latter to balance out their fleet emmisions.
Scrapping (or watering down) the clean car standard, rewards NZ auto importers who were just planning to pay a heap of fines (Ford NZ?), while meaning automakers who have taken fleet emissions reduction seriously are now going to have excessive numbers of low emissions vehicles (can no longer run the cross subsidy, as they need to compete with brands like ford that no longer have to pay fines.
The Clean Car Standard is not without it's issues. Most notably, having a higher limit for commercial vehicles, Incl utes and some vans. Creates a strong incentive for say Toyota to push buyers to the hilux, rather than the Fortuner (SUV version of the hilux), even though the latter has slightly lower emissions. Not a massive surprise the Fortuner has been dropped from Toyota's NZ lineup... We don't want a situation like CAFE in the USA which incentives the sale of larger vehicles that what the market would otherwise demand. The move to larger vehicles can often undermine efficiency gains.
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At what point is a 'car-less days' strategy considered, again? The added factor of EVs not relying on oil for fuel would surely see them exempted. That situation would definitely 'screw the scrum' in favour of EVs.
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