Letters: EVs all about the future of our planet

One writer says electric cars are a no brainer. Photo/File.

Jim Adams (Letters, June 4) asks "has anyone given serious thought to the future with electric vehicles".

Hydrogen is a way off yet. Fact: most of New Zealand's power is renewable through hydro.

We have solar power and reduced our power consumption from the grid by 50 per cent.

My wife drives 180km return each day to work three days a week. The saving on a diesel Nissan Qashqai changeover to a Nissan Leaf with a range of 280k is $9000 a year in fuel and RUC costs. The crucial plus is no pollution from the Nissan Leaf.

It's a no brainer.

It's not about the future of electric vehicles its about the future of our planet. Unless steps are taken to do as we have (and anyone else could) our mokopuna and ongoing whanau may not have a planet to live in. (Abridged)

Tony Lipanovic
Rainbow Trout Lodge

Electric cars

Regarding electric cars (Letters, June 4), you can buy a perfectly good second-hand electric car for $20,000.

I have an electric car, so I talk from experience when I say they are so cheap to run and maintain that there is no comparison to a petrol car at all.

The extra electricity you use to charge them is negligible. Sure if you go on a long trip it takes a bit of planning, or you go and hire a gas guzzler with the money you have saved. It's the same old story nobody likes change.
Gavin Muir
Springfield

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