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Mike Casey, who heads up electrification advocacy group Rewiring Aotearoa, said private and commercial transport needed a greater focus from all parties. "Where are the incentives around electric vehicle adoption? It seems like everyone's too scared to talk about EVs at the moment because of the really quite immature discussion we had about them three years ago at the last election."

Fast, clean, and quiet: Harry Bycroft knows that electric boats are the future. At the Electrify Te Tai Tokerau Expo, he took us for a tour of Ngaru (under the watchful eye of his mother Fiona Bycroft, the CEO of Naut) and he's a pretty good salesman.

Rewiring Aotearoa's Matt Newman: "For marae, however, there aren't a huge amount of places where they could turn to unless they're engaging professional services around electrification. We know that that hasn't often been in the funding piece either. You know, funders will happily fund upgrades for marae, but they won't fund the due diligence that's necessary to support marae in making really good decisions for the long-term future."