A $50 million plan to expand New Zealand’s public electric vehicle (EV) charging network marks another step toward a lower-emissions transport system.
The government will provide interest-free loans to private operators ChargeNet and Meridian Energy, which will invest a further $60 million to lift the national network to around 4,500 charge points.
The aim is to ease a key constraint on EV uptake: limited public charging infrastructure, particularly outside major urban centres.
It partly reflects what’s been called a chicken-and-egg problem, in which providers are reluctant to…
