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“What I get a lot is people talk about electric vehicles and what they say with electric vehicles is that they’re great for people in the city, but they’re not great for the people in the country,” Casey told the 2024 National Renewables in Agriculture Conference in Queensland. “And I always have to remind them that that couldn’t actually be further from the truth. Literally, the more [kilometres] you drive, the better off you are driving an electric vehicle ... If charging purely from the grid it costs us around $9 for a full charge, however with our solar and battery array we are expecting the cost to be closer to $2 a charge and are currently collecting the data to verify this ... One of the most remarkable things we now see in New Zealand is the number of farmers that are adopting electric vehicles because they’re starting to realise that per kilometre cost [of fuelling them is] significantly less than [petrol or diesel]."
Read moreDownload the document hereWe're throwing a price parity party as BYD announces compelling deals for new electric cars (no need to add wings to save money); another impressive New Zealand marine business E-Stroke looks to retrofit recreational boats and shows the economics stack up; Australia gets creative with its excess solar and batteries that have been installed in a few months as part of the subsidy programme now rival our third biggest power station; New Plymouth District Council gets set to benefit from a big airport solar farm; how thousands of panels are being installed and cleaned with the help of robots; and Norwegian smart charging provider Zaptec tells the inspiring tale of a man on a home petrol pump mission.
Read moreDownloadWhen many of the poles and wires went down in Southland after the recent storms, a number of homes, farms and businesses with solar and batteries were able to keep running. And TVNZ's Jared McCulloch spoke to the owners of Fairbank Farms about their experience.
Read moreDownloadThere’s plenty of energy emanating from the ground at Te Puia in Rotorua. And there’s plenty of creative energy emanating from those studying at the New Zealand Māori Arts and Crafts Institute. Now there’s also plenty of electric energy, because the business has upgraded its fossil fuel vehicles and added a big solar system so they can run on the sun.
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