A week from today, owners of electric vehicles - including plug-in hybrids - will begin buying licences for road-user charges.
Owners have until the end of May to buy and display their first RUCs. For an EV that travels the average yearly amount a year - considered 14,000 kilometres - the owner will need to buy $1064 in RUCs a year, the same as diesel vehicles, while plug-in hybrid owners will pay half that amount.
The decision to bring in the RUCs follows the removal of the Clean Car Discount - and the combination has crippled confidence in the EV market, according to industry leaders.
Kathryn speaks to Motor Industry Association chief executive Aimee Wiley about what's happening to EV sales.
She'll also talk to Emory Fierlinger, co-creator of the Roadtrip app, about a new website he's helped build called What the Ruc?, which is designed to help EV users work out what they'll have to pay.
Electric vehicle shopping. Photo: RNZ
