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# What’s the Bet They Call It KiwiCar?
- URL: https://goodoil.news/whats-the-bet-they-call-it-kiwicar/
- Published: 2021-05-28T20:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-07-17T16:58:44.000Z
- Author: Cam Slater
- Tags: Featured, NZ, NZ Politics, Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 01:54

Rumour are rife that the Government is looking to emulate their great successes in KiwiRail and KiwiBuild, by [bringing in their own “KiwiCar”](https://www.motoringnz.com/news/2021/5/27/radical-ev-push-talk-alarms-industry?ref=goodoil.news):

> MotoringNZ made contact with the MIA after being alerted by another industry involver, who said he had also heard the talk and believed it held water.  
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> His understanding was that **the Government was considering entering in a direct partnership with a brand**, not yet represented here but showing signs of coming in, **in expectation this could best provide electric cars at a lower price than any currently in the market.**  
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> As he understood it, **the idea was to favour a specific brand and bypass the orthodox distributor and dealership franchise model for a direct selling approach**, with consumers also being offered attractive finance support, perhaps from Kiwibank.  
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> The Government has made no bones that it wants to encourage New Zealanders to favour efficient cars, particularly hybrids and electrics, and already insists Government departments use EVs when practicable. \[…\]  
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> In the May 20 Budget Government indicated a ‘feebate’ – which makes EVs cheaper and gas guzzlers more expensive – may be installed.   
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> Additionally, Finance Minister Grant Robertson also announced $302 million had been put aside for an unnamed policy “to implement a regime to incentivise the uptake of low-emissions vehicles”.  
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> No further details were provided in the Budget, aside from statements that the **“initiative will build demand for buyers of zero and low-emission vehicles”** and that design work was still being completed. The public will find out more in a few weeks’ time, Climate Minister James Shaw told the Stuff website.

Hmmm…I know that Labour likes to brand everything “Kiwi”…but surely this is begging for the Maori equivalent of the ‘[People’s Car](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen?ref=goodoil.news#1932%E2%80%931938:%5FPeople's%5FCar%5Fproject)‘…like the Iwi [Waka Hiko](https://maoridictionary.co.nz/search?idiom=&phrase=&proverb=&loan=&histLoanWords=&keywords=waka+hiko&ref=goodoil.news). I’m sure they could emulate the success of the last ‘People’s Car’.

Knowing Labour they’ll call it “KiwiCar” and promise to deliver 10,000 per annum for ten years…and then actually deliver a single old Lada with a boot full of 10 lead-acid batteries connected to a diesel engine.

Basically though it sounds like we’re going to spend $300 million subsidising urban elite lefty wankers into smugmobiles from China…all powered by that nice clean Indonesian coal that we import to keep Huntly going.

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