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New Zealand’s Meridian Energy will experiment electric cars on a “small scale” in 2008

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If you go by to the Meridian Energy site these days, you’ll see a little ad to win an “energy efficient hybrid car.” But that little promotion is not the only way that the New Zealand utility is trying to green up the place. Meridian is New Zealand’s only carbon neutral electricity and next year will start evaluating (on a small scale) some electric cars. The story we found on Lexis Nexis and Meridian’s press release give zero data on the type and number of these EVs, so we’ll just have to speculate.

What we do know is that Meridian wants to:

“To analysis how electric cars perform in New Zealand conditions
To find out what New Zealanders think about electric cars
To inspire the auto industry to look increasingly closely at opportunities in New Zealand.”

Sounds good. I can suppose that numbers one and two will yield Meridian similar results as other testers in other countries. Number three, though, is where it’d be nice to see New Zealand lead the way.

[Source: The Dominion Post (Wellington, New Zealand)]

Original post by Sebastian Blanco