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Editorial: Tension between environment and economic development looms

OPINION: 'We've got unavoidable trade-offs to make,' says Shane Jones.

'Distressing': Car dealer closures 'likely' as sales fall for fifth straight month

'Even more daunting than the peak of the Global Financial Crisis.'

Letters: Another family caught up in ridiculous red tape

OPINION: Immigration NZ delivers 'a brilliant gem of bureaucratic lunacy'.

Road user charges: 12,000 renegade EV owners now face fines

About 11 per cent of EV owners failed to pay up by the May 31 deadline.

RUCs for EVs: Many yet to sign up, with deadline just days away

The move will roughly double EV owners' running costs.

NZTA tells dealers to repay Clean Car rebates on almost 200 EVs

Dealers pocketed subsidies of up to $7000 per vehicle, then sold them on too quickly.

Shane Te Pou: National could lose in 2026, but would Labour be ready to win?

OPINION: Could this be a one-term government?

One thing households could do to save $1000-plus on power bills

Also under scrutiny are the creaky state of Kiwi appliances and our ageing vehicle fleet.

Government to slash road user charges for plug-in hybrids

Plug-in hybrid owners will pay less in road user charges after a change of heart.

$1000/year to drive your EV: Road user charges for electric vehicles from April

The other shoe has dropped. How it will work.

Tesla dethroned as EV sales boomed in final month of Clean Car Discount

An industry boss wants clarity as EV owners get set to pay Road User Charges.

Power to the people as American solar rooftop use grows

About 4.5 million homeowners in the US now have solar rooftops.

Focus: Car dealer's ‘biggest EV shipment yet’ as sales expected to surge

Kiwis are rushing to get an EV before the Clean Car rebate is scrapped on December 31st. Video / Ben Dickens Focus Reporter / Chereè Kinnear

Cheap Chinese electric utes will help NZ meet climate goals once 'ute tax' repealed

An economist thinks the arrival of Chinese EVs will see uptake soar.

US car salvage industry braced for impending bounty of junk EVs

Financial Times: Companies that wrench apart and shred old cars prepare for big change.

Opinion: Stakes of the US car worker strike could not be higher

Financial Times: If Biden can’t bridge gap between bosses and labour, Trump could win.

Focus: See the NZ Police’s new fully electric BMW i4 in action

Police have unveiled a new electric vehicle they are trialling - a BMW i4. Video / NZ Herald

Police to go electric, Auckland ram raiders thwarted & Council jobs 'held hostage' | Focus Morning Bulletin: 2 June, 2023

Police steer towards electric future, how the Government is helping those worst hit by weather events and bollards stop ram raiders in their tracks in the latest New Zealand Herald headlines. Video / NZ Herald