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MONTHLY MAGAZINE OF EVTALK.CO.NZ – VOLUME 2 | ISSUE 11 | JULY 2018
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Tesla officially opened its first New Zealand store and service centre in Auckland on
June 28 - coincidentally the same day as company chief executive Elon Musk’s 47th birthday.
More than 250 Tesla owners, VIPs and guests partied that night at the 501 Karangahape Road venue, which opened to the public the next day.
Musk couldn’t attend, still grap-pling at that stage with Model 3 production in California, but he has said he’s keen to come to New Zealand.
Tesla owners like Sean Dick, trustee and treasurer for The Better NZ Trust, are impressed with the new facilities. “It’s a great working space and they’ve done a good job of finding something to allow them to grow into the future,” he says.
Dick believes mainly visitors to Auckland will use the centre’s charging facilities, as most other Tesla owners tend to charge at home.
He owns a Model S which has done about 76,000km in just over two-and-a-half years, including several Leading the Charge tours of
‘Tesla time’ at first New Zealand store and service centre
Ford New Zealand has landed a Ford Focus Electric in the country for evaluation, with the car hitting the
road with one of its major fleet clients.The hatchback will spend a year with
Corys Electrical, who will operate the vehicle alongside its traditional fleet.
The Focus features a 33.5kWh battery giving it a potential range of around 200 kilometres. The electric motor produces 107kW and the car can be DC fast charged or topped up through the onboard 6.5kW AC charger. It appears otherwise unchanged from a conven-tional model - though part of the bat-tery is situated in a large box in the boot.
The Focus Electric is not a new model - going on sale in the United States in 2011 and Europe in 2012. This version is set for replacement with a new generation Focus now in produc-tion.
Corys Electrical sustainability adviser Marcel Roquette says while the car is being evaluated, it will also be part of the firm’s wider work in educating and
assisting customers on electrical infra-structure roll out.
Corys supplies electricians with components used in both home and commercial installations, he explains.
“All the infrastructure materials - so
whether you need cable, protection, safety devices or circuit breakers, charg-ers, fixed or mobile chargers - every-thing you need to safely and affordably charge an electric vehicle, regardless of the brand, regardless of the manufac-turer of the car and regardless of your usage, we have a solution for you.”
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Industry forums are a new addition to the EVworld NZ conference and expo
in Auckland.The Conferenz organised
event is expected to attract thousands of people to the ASB Showgrounds in Auck-land from August 9-11.
The first two days are trade days, followed by a free public day on August 11.
Four industry forums are running on August 9, cover-ing network and infrastructure, the motor industry, local government, and EV fleet development.
The industry conference on August 10 features talks such as lessons from the global evolution, the role of EVs in a zero-carbon future, what can be learnt from countries like Norway, wireless and V2G develop-ments, the public transport evolution and Trans-Tasman EV collaboration (“Is Australia holding us back?”).
Kellen Schefter from the Edison Energy Institute in Washington will pro-vide the international keynote address at the conference, giv-ing insight into the global EV ecosystem and the role New Zealand can play in the EVolution.
Anyone who registers for EVworld NZ goes in the draw to win a month’s use of a Hyundai Kona Electric – which Hyundai Motors NZ plans to officially launch at the show, with a Maverick e-bike as second prize.
Champions in the EV industry will be recognised at an awards night on August 9.
A wide variety of displays
include “Evie” - Mercury’s 1957 Ford Fairlane con-verted to electric, an electric boat, an expected 100 trade stands, EV rides and drives and e-bike rides, plus much more.
We asked guest speakers their thoughts before the August 9 forums.
AA business vehicle solutions senior accounts
manager Mark Lloyd chairs the Fleet De-velopment Forum.
He’s had a wide involvement in both the energy and automotive sectors and says the forum’s focus is to explore
the challenges of building a business case for EV fleets.
It will look to provide an understanding to how and why some fleets have already moved into incorpo-rating EVs and hybrids and studies some of the impediments.
The forum includes a presentation by Meridian Energy’s pro-curement and prop-erty manager Nick
Robilliard, who contributed to Drive Electric’s re-cent white paper on Building an Electric Fleet.
The potential of EV leasing and car sharing will also be
covered, Christchurch City Council’s first fully elec-tric car sharing service an example.
The afternoon’s forum includes the chance for audience engagement and participation with panel and table discussions.
Included in the panel is Geoff Bold, an early EV adopter.
He’s been driving a Gen 1 Nissan Leaf since December 2015.
Bold’s Leaf dou-bled the number of EVs driven by employees at Fisher & Paykel Healthcare, where he’s a senior clinical research scientist.
Seven months later, two more Leafs arrived, and Bold got a business case for four slow charging stations ap-
proved, installed in December 2016 and helping remove a perceived barrier for employees contem-plating driving an EV.
Company em-ployees now have
28 privately owned EVs. Bold and a small team also ran four EV drive and display days.
Plans are progressing, with co-funding from the Government’s low emission vehicles contestable fund to install 50 more charging stations at F&P Healthcare and local district health boards over the next year to encourage more people to drive electric.
Another on the panel is FleetPartners New Zealand managing director Dennis Kelly.
He’s discussing the ‘real world today’ whole-of-life cost for a plug in or hybrid compared to an en-vironmentally friendly petrol vehicle and reviewing the actual
incremental costs incurred in choosing an EV.
“Understandably, the residual value (RV) posi-tion taken by most leasing companies is extremely risk averse, so although EVs are considerably cheaper to run and maintain, the leasing costs can be a barrier to mainstream commercial ap-plications,” Kelly says.
“The fact is RVs are a point of contention whether you are talking about an EV or fuel type vehicle. The differ-ence is that the data model-ling for fuelled vehicles has been around a lot longer and can be statistically validated.
“We have yet to under-stand the affect that leading
edge technology has in this area, the inevitable draw and demand on supporting infra-structure, the actual maintenance costs associated to these types of vehicles
long-term and the impact in-troducing road user charges may have on EVs in the
EVworld NZ set to buzz
Mark LloydGeoff Bold
Dennis Kelly
Nick Robilliard
”Evie” the electric Ford Fairlane will be there.
Kellen Schefter
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A drive is on through-out New Zealand and the Pacific to supply
electric vehicle charging products.
The move comes from Auckland-based Jackson Industries, in collaboration with its long-time partner ABL Sursum in Germany which supplies EV chargers, cables and accessories.
This comes with a number of customer value-added advantages such as product stocking, test equipment and local back-up and service.
Jackson Industries will have chargers and other EV-related products at its
EVworld NZ stand at the ASB Showgrounds in August.
A display will also feature at the EVworld South event in Christchurch in November, and the company will have a presence at the ECANZ Master Electricians Confer-ence, also in Christchurch on July 24.
Jackson Industries and ABL are both family run companies involved in the electrical product field for decades.
Founded by James W Jackson in 1977, Jackson Industries is a multi-faceted company providing diverse engineering expertise from
electrical equipment through precision CNC machining and tooling to composite structures and the develop-ment of bespoke polymers.
It has about 80 staff at sites in Auckland’s Onehun-ga and in Christchurch and Australia.
The company, which includes general manager Mark Jackson and four other family members, has brought Gregory Macready on board as business development manager to promote its EV side and other business op-portunities.
Innovation and develop-ment are embedded in the
company’s DNA.That’s evident in the many
things it does.Its origins lie in electri-
cal equipment with a safety emphasis, such as its famous Lifeguard power distribution systems, leading to specialist divisions within the firm.
One of these divisions includes architectural formwork – making high-precision moulds, often with motifs, for casting concrete, extensively used in archi-tectural applications such as motorway and rail abut-ments.
The company has grown
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Greg Macready, left, Mark Jackson and Jim Jackson.
The Jackson Industries team.
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the country.Tesla Owners Club of
New Zealand founder Darryl Naidoo says the new centre exceeds expectations. He’s already used it several times, including for a club meeting, supercharging and to book a service for his Model S which is nearing 40,000km.
The new Auckland centre has two Model S vehicles and a Model X displayed, as well as a signature Tesla “skateboard” chassis, six supercharging bays and five destination charging stations. Additional supercharging sites opened in Queenstown and Omarama from June 29, taking total supercharging sites to six.
Destination chargers are also available in more than 75 locations which include shopping centres, hotels, restaurants, resorts and se-cure parking areas.
The new Auckland centre follows Tesla’s model and is part of its global store and service centre expansion.
Tesla’s servicing, built on
a zero-profit model, ensures owners receive a full under-standing of the costs and works being undertaken on their vehicle upfront. That can be done even prior to arrival at the service centre due to remote diagnosis over the air, through the vehicle’s in-built connection.
Tesla Australia and New
Zealand senior marketing and communications man-ager Heath Walker declines to reveal the Auckland centre’s value or Tesla sales details. But he says there’s strong interest in NZ.
He says the centre is available to owners 24 hours, access provided by a code, with customers able to use a lounge with snacks, refreshment and free TV.
Model 3 cars can be ordered and Walker expects a right-hand drive version to be available in 2019.
He says customers can enjoy “Tesla time” at the new centre where dealer specialists and customers often maintain a long-term relationship.
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The showroom.
So while you may ask your local sparky to fit a caravan plug or high amperage wiring in your garage, chances are the material came from such a supplier.
Roquette notes part of the firm’s role is in the provision of information and education to the trade.
“A lot of education is required, particularly in our customer base - the trades,” he notes. “Electricians have been left out for the most part of the EV conversation that’s been happening in New Zealand.
“So we’re spending more time educating our cus-tomers and helping them educate their customers who eventually drive EVs.
“They are getting more requests for installations every day and they are supposed to be the source of knowledge for their
customers, and most of the time, because the legisla-tion is evolving rapidly, the technologies are changing rapidly, they don’t necessar-ily have all the answers and they are certainly counting on us to help them in that journey,” Roquette says.
While Corys is happy to take a lead, this part of the EV rollout needs to be a broad effort.
“No one can do it all, It has to be a group effort. The government cer-tainly has a key role to play and it’s do-ing a relatively good job. But my feeling is they need to co-ordinate better with industry players such as ourselves or our suppliers, the manu-facturers of systems, of EV chargers or of electric cars themselves.”
Business development manager Arushi Walia gets
to drive the Focus electric and it’s already gaining at-tention.
“I’ve only had the car for a day and I’ve got so many people asking me questions,” Walia explains. “Already, I’m taking a few people out for a spin this week. Everyone’s quite curious to know about the
charging and how it works and how quick it takes to charge the full car and you know how it drives.
“It’s been driven by a lot of people already. There’s hype around about my car.”
Only oneFord New Zealand says
they hope to learn from the evaluation vehicle - but there are unlikely to be more arrive as part of the trial.
“Look, we’d love to, but this is a pretty unique evalu-ation. It’s probably at this point just with Corys. It’s part of their core business, so it’s probably just the one,” Ford’s communication manager Tom Clancy says.
“Ford globally has a number of different projects in EV space going on. In Europe, for example, they’re part of the Ionity Group which is setting up fast-charging stations through-out Europe and that’s ad-dressing the infrastructure side of things.
“So on a smaller scale, but no less important, we’re hoping to learn some of the infrastructure needs here in New Zealand through this evaluation. Things need to be addressed in the market.”
To see our video on the Ford Focus Electric evalua-tion, visit our YouTube chan-nel: https://www.youtube.com/c/automediagroup
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A five-month tour in a prototype Jucy electric campervan has ended
for two French students – but their journey still has a way to go.
Paris-based Heloise de Bokay and Solene Trinquet provided valuable informa-tion for Jucy chief operating officer Dan Alpe during a debrief in Auckland on re-turning the modified Nissan eNV200 van.
The pair plan to spend until early August covering North Island sections they missed, like the East Coast, before returning to France.
Trinquet expects she’ll be working on a documentary of their e-tour during the next year, which they hope to have featured on televi-sion, in cinemas, on the in-
ternet and at events and university gatherings.
De Bokay will return to university studying environmental law, but both want to come back.
Their presence remains in the mean-time. The pair’s Jucy e-campervan will feature at EVtalk’s EVworld NZ stand at the ASB Show-grounds on August 10 and 11. Videos of the stu-dents’ tour are expected to be included.
The French pair completed 13,000km, travelling most of the country. With the 24kWh van’s range of about 100km, they planned their trip care-fully to ensure they didn’t run out of charge, plugging in 218 times.
“The key thing was to be organised. We managed with the range we had.”
They stopped often, and usually found residents waiting to welcome them at
charging sites. ChargeNet NZ
provided charg-ing free while Jucy donated use of the e-campervan.
Alpe says the trial has proved valuable. He’s considering introducing up to 10 electric campervans this summer, but says they will have the 40kWh battery for longer range.
By using the stu-dents’ itinerary, Alpe is planning a more packaged style tour
for overseas visitors, also catering for those concerned about their environmental footprint.
A packaged tour would
French e-tourists say ‘au revoir’
Dan Alpe welcomes back Heloise de Bokay, left, and Solene Trinquet.
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Established in 1996, YHI (New Zealand) Ltd has eight branches throughout New Zealand, located in Auckland, Hamilton, Tauranga, Napier, Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin and Invercargill.
YHI’s Power Division en-compasses the distribution of solar power equipment, DC and UPS power units, industrial batteries, and more recently the addition of electric vehicle charging equipment in 2014.
Power Products divisional manager Aaron Gillon saw
an opportunity when he noticed an existing supplier making EV chargers and vehicle internal components during a business trip to Taiwan in 2014. As a result, several hundred Delta 7kW chargers were sold in short succession, and more had to be brought in – such was the demand.
Four years on, YHI has seen massive growth in this field, and has enjoyed work-ing closely with its customers on a number of EV charging roll-outs – with more excit-ing projects in the pipeline.
Gillon says nearly all his customers now have EV
charging, YHI distributes through
their network of installers, retailers, wholesalers and utilities
Adding to the Delta range of EV charging equipment, YHI is also the exclusive dis-tributor for Rolec EV, a divi-sion of Rolec Services, which designs and manufactures EV charging solutions in the United Kingdom.
The Rolec product range is compatible with all leading EV makers’ vehicles and their communication protocols.
The wide range of charg-ers includes entry level Wall-Pod EV Ready units to highly
sophisticated EV Control-Centre facilities, designed for every location and budget. That’s brought about YHI’s motto “EVSE for Everyone”.
Personalised ranges are offered to suit individual cli-ent requirements, specifica-tions and branding.
Some can provide plugs within the same charger for Japanese and US EVs to charge up alongside Euro-pean brands.
A CubiCharge portable charging box, for instance, provides Mode 3, Type 2 points for 1way to 4way formats, suitable for show-
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Electric vehicles can now easily get around the East Coast/Gis-
borne area, thanks mainly to the work done by Eastland Group.
It even has an Electric Vil-lage people can check out.
You might say Eastland Group has a vested interest in encouraging more EVs to the area.
The Gisborne-based group specialises in regional infrastructure including ports, electricity distribution and transmission networks, and electricity generation.
Eastland Group’s op-erations include Eastland Port, Gisborne Airport and Eastland Network – the electricity network for Gis-borne, Wairoa and the East Coast – as well as Eastland Generation, which produces electricity from hydro, diesel and geothermal plants.
In late 2017, Eastland Group opened New Zea-land’s first “new energy hub”, the Electric Village, at 37 Gladstone Road (Gisborne’s main street).
The Electric Village is a 280sqm space full of interactive exhibitions on the history and future of energy technology, tips and tricks on clever ways to use your power, and all the lat-est information on electric
vehicles and electric bikes. The village has a dedicated Nissan Leaf and three e-bikes available for community test drives.
“Electric Village is a one-stop-shop for advice, exhibi-tions and discussions about the future of energy,” says the village’s energy cham-pion Katherine Evett.
“We get lots of enquir-ies from people who want to visit the region and need some help organising their route. The biggest gap be-tween our charging stations is 119km from Te Araroa to Tolaga Bay, which requires some careful planning for some EV owners.”
The Eastland Group/Elec-tric Village team are also the people behind six fast-charging stations that con-nect the East Coast to the national charging network.
“We worked closely with
our network, local coun-cils and local businesses to ensure that the chargers were located in practical locations,” Evett says. “There is so much to see and do on the East Coast, we wanted to make sure that EV own-ers have the opportunity to explore some local scenery whilst charging.”
Gisborne was one of the first New Zealand towns to adopt electric vehicles around 1910, so you could say they’ve stepped back to the future.
A link featured in the Elec-tric Village includes a photo of then Gisborne mayor William Douglas Lysnar in an electric car with famous inventor Thomas Edison in 1910.
“In 1909, Lysnar lobbied for major upgrades to the town. These included the widespread introduction of electric power, street im-provements and a new tram system,” Evett says.
“He travelled to London in 1910 to raise funds. On the way back, he stopped in America to meet Thomas Edison, inventor of the world’s first commercial electric lightbulb and sev-eral EVs.
“Convinced that EVs were the way of the future, Lysnar brought a Brougham electric car back to Gisborne as a present for his wife. On Edison’s advice, he also im-ported some electric trams. In 1913, Gisborne became the first town in the south-ern hemisphere to operate battery-driven electric trams.
“Lysnar was more than 100 years ahead of his time, but finally his vision has be-come real.”
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The 10 electric addi-tions to the new Metlink bus network mark a major step toward a 21st century public transport system for the re-gion, says Greater Wellington Regional Council chairman Chris Laidlaw.
The new network starts on July 15.
“They will be the cen-trepiece of a world-class bus fleet and a transformed network,” Laidlaw says. “They are New Zealand’s first bat-tery powered bus fleet, and
we believe they are the first fully electric double-deckers in the southern hemisphere.”
Laidlaw says with 10 new electric buses this year and 32 by 2021, the council is
well on its way to achieving a 100% electric bus fleet.
“By early 2019, we’ll have more than 350 new Metlink buses on our roads - that’s 80% of our fleet. They’re built
especially for our region and feature modern, efficient, low emissions engines.
The council and our four bus companies – Tranzit, NZ Bus, Mana and Uzabus – are investing tens of millions of dollars in buses that are quieter, more spacious and air-conditioned.”
An expected increase of four million more passenger trips by 2024 requires an integrated network, Laidlaw says.
“We have to make Metlink buses, trains and ferries work together more smoothly so we can carry more people to more places, more often.”
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BMW i3 BEV $76,900 200 km
i3s BEV $84,300 200 km
Hyundai Ioniq BEV $59,990 220 km
Ioniq Elite BEV $65,990 220 km
Kona BEV not yet 400 km
Renault Zoe 40 kWh BEV $68,990 300 km
Kangoo van BEV $74,990 160 km
TeslaModel S 75/100 kWh
BEV $121,395 350 - 540 km
Model X 75/100 kWh
BEV $129,145 380 - 475 km
Volkswagen e-Golf BEV $61,990 220 km
Audi A3 Sportback e-tron
PHEV $69,900 45 km + 600 km
Q7 e-tron PHEV $158,400 54 km + 800 km
BMW i3 - Range Extender PHEV $84,500 200 km + 130 km
i3s - REX PHEV $91,900 200 km + 130 km
i8 PHEV $281,200 37 km + 400 km
i8 2018 Coupe PHEV $286,200 55 km + 400 km
i8 2018 Roadster PHEV $309,900 53 km + 400 km
225xe PHEV $69,800 41 km + 550 km
330e PHEV $91,600 40 km + 550 km
530e PHEV $136,400 50 km + 600 km
740e PHEV $202,700 48 km + 550 km
X5 xDrive40e PHEV $152,700 30 km + 800 km
Hyundai Ioniq Plug-in PHEV $53,990 63 km + 1040 km
Ioniq Plug-in Elite PHEV $59,990 63 km + 1040 km
Kia Niro PHEV $55,990 55 km + 850 km
Mini Countryman PHEV $59,900 30km + 500 km
Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV $60,990 50 km + 500 km
Mercedes Benz C350 e Sedan PHEV $96,400 31 km + 700 km
C350 e Estate PHEV $99,400 31 km + 700 km
E350 e Sedan PHEV $143,500 30 km + 600 km
GLE500 e PHEV $149,900 30 km + 700 km
S500 e PHEV $255,000 30 km + 700 km
Porsche Cayenne S e-hybrid PHEV $177,800 20 km + 750 km
Panamera Turbo S e-hybrid
PHEV $428,400 30 km + 750 km
Toyota Prius Prime PHEV $48,490 50 km + 1000 km
Volvo XC90 T8 PHEV $134,900 44 km + 600 km
XC60 T8 PHEV $94,900 40 km + 600 km
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Hyundai Ioniq BEV $54k - $55k 220 km
Ioniq Elite BEV $56k - $60k 220 km
Kia Soul EV BEV $35k - $36k 150 km
Mercedes Benz B250 e BEV $49k 140 km
Mitsubishi i-Miev BEV $12k - $15k 100 km
B-Miev Van BEV $12k 100 km
Nissan LEAF Generation 1 BEV $9k - $17k 120 km
LEAF Gen 2 - 24 kWh battery BEV $15k - $28k 135 km
LEAF Gen 2 - 30 kWh battery BEV $23K - $43k 180 km
LEAF ZE1 - 40 kWh battery BEV $52k - $63k 250 km
e-NV200 van BEV $19k - $25k 140 km
Renault Zoe 22 kWh BEV $26k - $30k 220 km
Zoe 40 kWh BEV $43k - $46k 300 km
Smart Fortwo BEV $20k 100 km
Tesla S 75 BEV $118k 350 km
S P85 BEV $97.5k 350 km
S 90D BEV $149k 420 km
X 75D BEV $145k 340 km
X 90D BEV $170k 410 km
X 100D BEV $159k 480 km
Volkswagon e-Golf - 36kWh battery BEV $58k - $63k 200 km
Audi A3 Sportback E-Tron PHEV $50k - $60k 45 km + 600 km
Q7 e-tron PHEV $125k 54 km + 800 km
BMW i3 REX PHEV $40k - $72k 200 km + 150 km
225xe PHEV $50k 41 km + 550 km
330e PHEV $50k - $76k 37 km + 550 km
X5 xDrive40e PHEV $140k 30 km + 800 km
i8 PHEV $122k 37 km + 400 km
Mercedes Benz C350 e Sedan PHEV $63k - $80k 31 km + 700 km
GLE500 PHEV $125k - $130k 30 km + 700 km
E350 e PHEV $120k 30 km + 600 km
S500 e PHEV $96k 30 km + 700 km
Mini Countryman Cooper SE PHEV $66k 30km + 500 km
Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV $28.5k - $35k 50 km + 500 km
Porsche Cayenne S e-hybrid PHEV $129k 20 km + 750 km
Toyota Plug-in Prius PHEV $20k - $26k 26 km + 800 km
Volvo XC90 T8 PHEV $130k 44 km + 600 km
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future.” MITO chief executive Janet Lane
features in the Motor Industry EV Forum panel on “Meeting the needs of the future EV retail industry”.
Lane will cover the work MITO is doing on developing the human infrastructure required for EV uptake.
MITO has received funding from the Government’s low emission vehicles contestable fund to develop a qualification framework for the safe inspection, servic-ing and repair of EVs.
That will lead to an industry-approved EV qualification and training programmes enabling automotive busi-nesses to upskill staff.
“This will result in the public right across New Zealand having choice when purchasing inspection, servicing and repair services for their EV which, in turn, will increase consumer confidence.”
Janet Lane
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into Australasia’s leading supplier of industrial power applications and portable power solutions.
Now it’s branching more into EV-related products, particularly with ABL’s wall box unit.
This AC unit offers a market leading quality EV charging product with several key innovative features, including the only twin socket wall box available.
That means the new eMH3 twin wall box, and eMC2 and eMC3 charg-ing poles for public applications, can charge two vehicles at the same time.
The wall box provides single phase and three-phase options with up to 22kW per socket, and can include backend connectiv-ity and management.
Jackson Industries un-
dertook a soft launch of the charging products earlier this year, but is only really now gearing up for the Evolution.
It is offering compact charging units for homes and small businesses, with larger charging systems available for big businesses and fleets, along with private and public options.
These will be largely self-monitoring, and include options around local management, such as a billing system offered with the larger projects.
“They’ll be very easy to use,” Macready says of the EV charging systems.
“A point of difference in the market for us is that we are not only supplying a quality product, but we’re involved in an end-to-end relationship with our cus-tomers,” he says.
“Many of our projects draw on the resources from
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Greg Macready.
A range of new fares and ticket types will be introduced to encour-age off-peak use.
Greater Wellington plans to lead New Zealand with the introduction of a national integrated ticketing scheme in a few years, creating a sin-gle way to pay on all public transport.
The e-buses, built by Kiwi Bus Builders in Tauranga, cost $1 million each and will comprise a fleet of 234 new electric and diesel buses servicing most Wellington and Hutt Valley commuter routes.
The electrics have a 150km range and will be slow charged overnight at Tranzurban’s depot, with fast charging in six to 10 minutes at stations en route.
Each bus weighs about 12 tonnes, carries up to 82 passen-gers and generates 320hp with 1500Nm of torque. They are 4.75m high, 2.5m wide and 10.4m long.
The e-buses are the result of a decade of research and development by Tranzit Group.
“The world is changing. We believe Wellington and New Zealand should be leading the way in public transport, and we’re delighted that the Greater Wellington Regional Coun-cil shares that vision,” Tranzit Group managing director Paul Snelgrove says.
Tranzit has also been named a finalist in the 2018 Deloitte Energy Excellence Awards for its innovative work to transform New Zealand’s diesel bus fleet to fully electric vehicles.
New electrics launch Greater Wellington’s bus fleet
a combination of the various divisions.
“That’s particularly use-ful to clients who prefer to deal with a single solutions provider. Being able to offer clients an ‘integrated pack-age’, we believe, underscores our operating philosophy - a concept-to-completion ap-proach that delivers the best outcome speedily and in the most cost-effective way.”
A range of customisable charging pole designs are included in its plans.
Some charger installations are already under way, and
Jackson Industries will soon have one on its Onehunga premises.
Mark Jackson says they’re working towards electrifying their fleet.
Sales manager Mario Skipwith, for instance, drives a Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV as his work can cover hun-dreds of kilometres.
The company also has electric scooters which staff can use to navigate around the Onehunga factory and nearby township.
Visit www.jackson.co.nz for more information.
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A buzz around the e-bus launch at the Beehive.
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New Zealand’s elec-tric vehicle podcast founder Theo Gibson
has found his niche in life.The West Aucklander is
the producer and co-host with Dee West of the NZ Electric Vehicle Podcast tailored for EV owners and enthusiasts.
Gibson’s experience in-cludes lecturing and advising in video and audio editing, television production and more. His EV interest began in 2009 after he saw the film Who Killed the Electric Car?
Gibson began converting a 1990 Toyota Sera to elec-tric drive because he says he couldn’t buy one here at the time.
He had no prior knowl-edge of automotive engi-neering, coming mainly from an arts background.
“But I’ve always been a passionate tinkerer,” he says.
His EV took three years to build during a 10-year stint at the Unitec Institute of Technology in Mt Albert, Auckland. Coincidentally, Gibson saw Shane Hartley begin a five-and-a-half-year project there to build a hydrogen fuel cell EV quad which featured several times in EVtalk last year.
While building his car, Gibson filmed the entire process, aiming to release a documentary series about the project named EV Builders. The series took a back seat as the build and certification became more intensive, but Theo plans to release the full documen-tary later this year to stream online.
During the build, Gibson
also began running an annual EV Expo, which continued annually from 2011-2014, where he invited anyone involved with EVs to attend.
It could be considered a forerunner of the EVworld NZ event, being run for the second time in Auckland this August.
At the time Gibson was doing the expo it comprised mainly EV conversions. Dee
and Steve West attended the 2011 event, and Gibson got back in touch nearly six years later after he took time off to start a family.
“I was aware of the of the great work Dee and husband Steve had been doing with ChargeNet,” Gibson says. So he asked them to see if they knew anybody planning on starting an EV news-related podcast. “They did not, but Dee was keen to be in-volved,” he says.
Gibson then approached Gorilla Technologies chief executive officer Paul Spain and joined the Podcasts.NZ network.
Gibson and Dee West re-leased their first few podcasts in July 2017, which started as a fortnightly release but is now weekly. For the past year, they have been talk-ing to everyone they can in
New Zealand’s EV space, and often mention EVtalk news.
The podcast is not your run-of-the-mill tech pod-cast, Gibson says.
He and West have a fun sense of enthusiasm for the EV movement and are closely connected to other EV owners and enthusiasts and businesses around the country
If you are new to EVs and podcasts, Gibson suggests listening to Podcast 11, EV Myths.
The EV podcast is the place to hear about EVs news in New Zealand, plus associ-ated items such as electric bikes, solar power, autono-mous vehicles, sustainability and more.
While it’s a labour of love for Gibson, he hopes to gain more sponsorship and support so the podcast can continue and he can devote more time to quality content.
“A lot of work goes into getting the show out each week,” he says. Gibson spends at least two days a week on planning, recording with Dee, and editing while also working part-time to put food on the table and building a start-up business associated with audio books.
While he doesn’t get much chance, Gibson says he’d like the time and fund-ing to travel more, covering items for the podcast.
Gibson believes he inherit-ed some of his tinkering pas-sion from his 104-year-old grandfather who converted a motorcycle and sidecar to a road legal three-wheel car, drove for many years, and then reinstated the motorcy-
cle to sell it.So what happened to
Gibson’s converted Toyota Sera? “It had wing doors like the Delorean and looked very futurisitic for an old car, which is why I wanted to convert it. Once finished I drove it for three years as my daily driver (between Titirangi where he was living at the time, and Point Chevalier – a 40km round trip). I saved at least a third of the cost of its conversion in that time.”
The total conversion cost was about $30,000, but Gib-son managed to get $10,000 worth of parts sponsored to help.
In 2013 Gibson sold the car but says he can still see it occasionally.
Gibson will be at the August EVworld NZ event at the ASB Showgrounds inter-viewing people with West for the podcast.
“I went to the first one (EVworld) and it’s good to see a couple of converters will be at the next one.”
Gibson now drives a Mit-subishi Outlander PHEV with 50km electric range, but he would love a Hyundai Kona Electric when it comes out.
And he is prepared to do another conversion to electric at some stage, a car or a light aircraft - he hasn’t decided just yet.
Visit https://www.nzevpodcast.com or email [email protected] or search on Facebook for more information.
Also, visit https://www.patreon.com/evpodcast to contribute, or go to www.evbuilders.co.nz for more about the conversion.
Enthusiast ‘tinkerer’ EV joins weekly podcast team
Dee West and Theo Gibson.
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The chance to test a European-made Gepida electric bike came at just
the right time.I had to lug a heavy pack
(laptop, clothes and other items) to and from work, plus wasn’t well, so my conven-tional road bike would have been a struggle.
But this Bosch central hub powered e-bike made all the difference, the centrally placed battery and motor pro-viding a low centre of gravity for better balance.
A 23km one-way journey became a breeze, the hills flowing under wheel with ease, thanks to four power assist levels ranging from “Turbo” (fast) to “Eco” (greater pedal push).
Using a variety of pedal as-sist levels from “Tour” (the step up from “Eco”) and mainly “Tour” and “Sport”, with the final step “Turbo” hardly used at all, the bike travelled roads and cycleways anywhere from 20-30km/h, sometimes reaching 40km/h.
That’s despite European Union regulations restricting speed there to 25-27km/h.
A day of wet and wind was no problem for the Gepida ei-ther. Full mudguards stopped any splash-back.
It meant I could travel to work in my better apparel, rather than lycra and associat-ed riding gear, without getting wet (under a three-quarter length rain jacket) and without raising a sweat.
The 400Wh Bosch pow-erpack battery lasted well, too. Of the five battery bars showing on the screen mounted centrally on the handlebars, only one bar dropped off by the end of 46km – showing the e-bike is capable of doing around 100km on a single charge.
If you run out of juice on the step-through Gepida 1000 City I was testing, it can still be pedalled without power assist (“Off”) with relative ease. It’s a heavy bike at nearly 26kg (most e-bikes are around 25kg or less), so you don’t want to travel too far without pedal as-
sist – especially uphill.You don’t have to be that fit
to ride an e-bike like this, and riders will soon gain a degree of fitness anyway through us-ing pedal assist.
There’s no throttle on this bike either – and you don’t need it.
The Gepida has seven gears, operated from a throt-tle-like control on the right handlebar. Just don’t try to jump too many gears at once.
Magura hydraulic brakes provide plenty of stopping power, even in the wet.
A range of wheel sizes is offered. The 28-inch wheels on the Gepida Reptila 1000 roll efficiently on pavement, while the Reptila 900 has smaller 26-inch tyres and would be more suitable for a slighter built person.
It fits in the lift and office at work, although charging tends to be done at home overnight – allow up to four hours.
The hydroformed frame comes with a lifetime warran-ty, while top quality compo-nents make this an outstand-ing bike for urban and rail trail riding.
A carrier and frame lock are included in the price - the Gepida available through Elec-trify NZ for $3500 on special at the moment.
New season Gepida stock has just landed too, with a recommended retail price of $4499. The arrivals feature the new Bosch Active Plus motor and a 32km/h speed limit.
As a commuter bike, the Gepida would be hard to beat.
Gepida was founded in 1996, taking its name from an ancient Germanic tribe, and has since become one of the leaders in European electric bike design and production.
Gepida has get up and go
EVtalk editor Geoff Dobson tests the Gepida electric bike.
The Hungarian-made Gepida 1000 City e-bike.
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An electric mowing concept was born in 2008 after a mowing team’s countless trips to gas sta-
tions, headaches from exhaust fumes, piercing engine noise, and continuous repairs to hydrostatic drives, belts and engine issues.
“We decided there must be a bet-ter way to build a zero-turn mower,” Mean Green Mowers president Joe Conrad says. “When some basic research was done, it was quickly discovered that outdoor power equip-ment, especially mowers, produced disproportionally high harmful emis-sions and operated extremely inef-ficiently.
“We decided to put our creative side to work and build an electric mower that would be much qui-eter, produce zero emissions, have minimal routine maintenance, and pay for itself in fuel savings.”
Christchurch-based Carbon South director Bruce Scott heard about it and in January last year went to Hamilton in Ohio, USA, to meet the Mean Green Team and learn about the latest innovations in the green technology space.
Impressed, “Carbon Bruce” – as he is often known – set up Carbon South as representatives of Mean Green Mowers in New Zealand.
“New Zealand produces a very high percentage of electrical power from renewable sources, so it makes a lot of sense to use that electricity to recharge vehicles and mowers alike,” Scott says. “This percentage is likely to rise in the future and a national grid powered by 100% renewables is not out of the realms of possibility.
“We at Carbon South take our re-
sponsibilities in terms of sustainability seriously. We offset the carbon miles of transporting the machines from head office in the US to New Zealand. We also offset all our unavoidable emis-sions incurred in the running of our business. This can include emissions for air travel, electricity and motor vehicle use. We select carbon credits from worthwhile forestry projects in New Zealand.
“Our aim is to increase the sustain-ability of open space management in New Zealand so that we can all breathe cleaner air.”
Mean Green Mowers provides a line of commercial electric mowers ranging from 33-inch (83.8cm) walk behind
mowers to 60-inch (152cm) ride-ons.The company says it also supports
electric cars.Mean Green Mowers says savings in
fuel costs alone on its e-mowers can amount to thousands of dollars annu-ally.
Built from thick-gauge aluminium and steel, the e-mowers are ready to withstand the rigours of commercial use. They also provide instant power, without waiting for belts and pullies to get up to speed.
The larger industrial versions of the WBX-33, SK-48 and CXR52/60 all give about seven hours of continuous mowing.
Smaller mowers can be charged in just a few hours, shortened further by using optional quick chargers, but normally they are charged up over-night, ready for operation the follow-ing morning.
The battery management system on the mower also acts as a failsafe and refuses any more power once fully charged.
The batteries have been third-party tested to hold 90% of useful capacity after 1200 cycles. If there’s a battery
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Future-ready infrastruc-ture for fast charging electric vehicles is
being put together by YHI (New Zealand) Ltd.
The 150kW Delta Ultra Fast Charger is being trotted out here and you can find out more about it at YHI’s EVworld NZ stand at the ASB Showgrounds in Auckland
from August 9-11.The 1000-volt technol-
ogy offers higher power charging to support a rapidly increasing number of EVs with the capability of extended driving range and higher battery capacity.
For instance, it can add 100km extra range in only eight minutes to a Porsche
Taycan - the road version of
its Mission-E, expected to be produced next year.
One charger can serve up to four customers at the same time, not only reducing investment in charging stations but the installation costs as well.
It’s also smart. The charg-er recognises the connected battery system automati-
cally and controls the internal power modules accord-ingly. Connectivity is realised through Ethernet, GPRS, 3G and 4G.
A dynamic power-split function means that while all available power goes to the first car hooked up, as other vehicles are
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INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTConnected Vehicles
By Kit Wilkerson, VIA analyst and adviser, on behalf of ITS NZ.
One of the things that unites intel-ligent transport and
electric vehicles (EVs) is the promise of technology that is not yet available.
Intelligent transport hopes to use artificial intelli-gence (in the broad sense of automated action on in-sights gleaned from data) to make transport smarter, more efficient, and more convenient.
Electric vehicles, on the other hand, will need to overcome several techno-logical hurdles before OEMs are comfortable building more of them and main-stream consumers are com-fortable purchasing them.
The technology needed for these fields to mature is under development, by both established companies and new start-ups. In fact, there is a major paradigm shift where resources previously only available to large cor-porations are now available to anyone; exemplified by access to big computing power.
More and more new technology, or at least novel applications of technology, is being birthed in base-ments and garages.
New Zealanders, with their “No 8 wire” mentality, are de-veloping a global reputation as being innovators. While I acknowledge and agree with the points made by some – that this perspective comes with drawbacks if not properly harnessed, chan-nelled, and supported – I think the ability to recognise a problem, have the will to address it, and find novel so-
lutions is the most important part of innovation. This is the part New Zealanders do in abundance. The rest, such as access and education about intellectual property and developing an idea to present on a global market, is in my opinion exactly where
government and industry bodies should step up.
Because of this, I am dismayed by the proposed changes in research and development (R&D) incen-tives, put forward by the NZ Government in their recent discussion paper entitled Fuelling Innovation to Transform Our Economy (April 2018). The proposal does away with some of the incentives available for emerging businesses and provides greater support by way of tax breaks to already established companies. To qualify for these tax breaks, companies must spend a minimum amount on R&D. This makes sense except, as is now proposed, when that minimum is outside the realm of possibility for many emerging companies.
To be fair, the new policy still supports start-ups. The problem is that it supports new companies and estab-lished companies, leaving a gap in the middle. This middle is exactly where, as argued above, support is needed.
The rate of techno-logical change is increasing and companies that don’t evolve with that change are doomed to fail. Yet, I am not convinced failure is a bad thing. When companies fail, they either leave a vacuum or they do not. Where a
vacuum exists, innova-tion will occur. New companies will step in and either do what the previous company did better, or they will fail too. The only way companies can achieve
“better” is through innovat-ing, either in process or product.
Even when vacuums are not created (or perhaps especially when), it is these smaller companies that are forced to innovate, to do something better than the established companies, to succeed.
Every company should be investing in R&D; it is an investment in themselves and in their products. They should do so because it is a necessity for survival in a quickly changing world. I applaud any government incentives that encourages R&D in a healthy business environment.
The marketplace, how-ever, is inherently competi-tive. A system that provides support for some companies over others is artificially pick-ing winners and losers. In the case of the proposed system, incentives offered to big companies will be used to reinforce their position in the marketplace, making it more difficult for smaller compa-nies who might otherwise
have been able to compete. Smaller innovators will be stifled.
I fail to see the logic or fairness in stifling the native innovators, while giving in-centives to companies that may previously have made the flawed business decision not to invest in themselves.
No, I take that back - I do see the logic. New Zea-land is lagging compared to other OECD countries in the amount of money being spent on R&D by big com-panies, and the new policy will probably help New Zealand address that issue. It remains to be seen if there is any correlation between that statistic and any criteria the normal New Zealander really cares about, such as standard of living, wages, etc. Any proposed system should attempt to include KPIs that measure benefit to New Zealand and those who live here.
To clarify, I do not mean to sound as if I am against big companies doing R&D, and nor am I against giving them encouragement or incentives. However, the big companies who already in-vest in R&D are not the ones whose behaviour the Gov-ernment is trying to change; they are trying to reach the ones who don’t.
I am concerned that innovators will spend time and money to build their dream, only to have the challenges mentioned toss a spanner in the works. Sup-port may not be there when they need to grow to com-pete on the global stage.
Small innovators could be stifled
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My recommendation would be a flat system that treats every company equal-ly, coupled with clear criteria defining and specifying R&D of greatest interest to New Zealand. Incentives should be based on percentage of
resources spent on R&D, relative to company size or operating profit. This would allow a company of any size to be eligible for incentives. This could even be taken to its logical conclusion and unify the entire R&D support platform.
Start-ups, and companies making a negative profit while spending resources on R&D, could be eligible for grants using the same equation.
In the name of full dis-closure, I am involved with a small tech company that
is not yet large enough to spend the minimum nec-essary to qualify for the proposed benefits. As such, I recognise I am biased.
However, I am sure there will be many companies that benefit from the proposed solution.
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All transport technolo-gies are now included in ITS New Zealand’s
newly published strategy and business plan for the next three years.
“We’ve streamlined our governance and committed resource to our operations with a view to scaling up our own activity over the next three years,” ITS New Zealand chairman David Vinsen says.
He says the organisation now has a flatter structure, a committed operations capability in executive officer Simon McManus, and a busi-ness plan.
As new technologies and innovations converge, new solutions emerge, so ITSNZ’s focus now encompasses all transport technologies, in-cluding vehicle technology, communication systems, data analytics, mobility as a service, demand manage-ment techniques and more traditional traffic manage-ment, Vinsen says.
“The successful T-Tech conference was an early out-come from an invigorated ITS New Zealand, reflected in our largest annual conference yet and we were further motivat-ed by the positive feedback we’ve received,” he says.
“We’ve had great feedback on the calibre of the pro-gramme from both local and international attendees, and consequently, we’re attract-
ing new members.”In the pipeline are an-
nouncements for T-Tech 2019, more networking and informative events, inter-national speaker series and initiatives to encourage best practice, skills and diversity.
Meanwhile, ITS New Zea-land hosts its annual general meeting on July 16.
A “Back from the future of transport conference” report from Ministry of Transport strategic policy and innova-tion team principal advisor Helen Robertson features at the AGM, Level 4, Grant Thorn-ton Building, 215 Lambton Quay, Wel-lington, noon to 2pm.
Her report centres on “The Future of Transportation World Conference” on June 19 and 20
A networking lunch will be followed by the presentation and then the AGM.
The world conference brought together world
transportation leaders with the common goal of devising bet-ter solutions for providing safe, ef-ficient, sustainable transportation in 2030 and beyond.
‘Getting Trans-portation Off the Ground’ was a core theme of the event, examining how personal airborne transpor-tation systems will become viable mass transportation.
The futuristic vision of skyscrapers sur-rounded by airborne transport for mass commuting could be just a few years away, but are the world’s govern-ments and existing transport providers
and operators prepared? Will new modes mean
today’s automotive compa-nies become lost in history or will they – as, for example, Mercedes-Benz has long stated – be part of the new
transport solution?Other conference themes
Robertson plans to cover include legal and technical issues around AVs, mobility as a service, the challenges for rail, and sustainability in transportation.
Robertson has a strong interest in aviation regula-tory issues, and in recent years has focussed on how to support the UAS industry
to thrive. This has included
developing a cross-government strategy to ensure better coor-dination on UAS issues. She was also part of the cross-government pro-ject team that developed
the outer space and high altitude regulatory regime to enable Rocket Lab to operate in New Zealand.
Since moving to the In-novation team, she is now turning her mind to other transport disruptive tech-nologies and how we can better prepare New Zealand for their adoption.
ITS NZ says that with its recently published strat-egy and business plan and a highly successful T-Tech summit, the AGM is a great opportunity to hear about plans for the year ahead, including events, skills devel-opment and T-Tech 2019.
Visit www.itsnz.org for more information.
David Vinsen
ITS New Zealand’s plan A report on the conference will be presented.
Helen Robertson
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Auckland-based HMI Technologies/Oh-mio is rapidly gaining
world-wide recognition.It has signed a US$20 mil-
lion investment agreement with Heshan city in China.
The deal with the Heshan Industrial City Management Committee allows an Oh-mio plant to be established there for making autono-mous vehicles (AV), and an artificial Intelligence Trans-port (ITS) research centre.
The agreement was signed by HMI Technologies and its subsidiary Ohmio Automotion founder and chairman Mohammed Hik-met and Heshan Industrial City Administration Com-mittee deputy director Wu Xiaoqing.
“This is another mile-stone for the success of Ohmio and another ‘vote of confidence’ in Ohmio, following the sign-ing of the Solaseado memorandum of un-derstanding (MoU) in Korea earlier in April,” Hikmet says.
HMI Technolo-gies/Ohmio chief executive officer Dean Zabrieszach says not only will Ohmio be able to meet its mass production requirements inside and outside of China, but this investment also adds a huge boost to its existing research activities in establishing an autonomous platform solu-tion.
“While the R&D centre in New Zealand will con-tinue to be the main one, we look forward to the Heshan
centre starting as soon as possible, under the supervi-sion of our key technology and artificial intelligence leaders in the company ,” Zabrieszach says.
“The agreement set July 1 as a starting date. There is a lot to do ahead of us, but we are so excited to start as
soon as possible.”
Hikmet says his com-pany regards the milestone agreement as a first step in becoming a global AV manufacturer.
He says New Zealand Trade and Enterprise, the New Zealand Ministry of For-eign Affairs and Trade, and Auckland Tourism, Events and Economic Development helped establish the agree-ment.
Hikmet says HMI will continue to work with them to secure the company base in New Zealand and Aus-tralia, and to gain a foothold in other markets such as Europe and the US.
Ohmio Automotion is also working on providing its Lift shuttle for Christchurch Airport to transport peo-ple between the terminal
and parking areas where passengers access other transport services.
HMI Technologies is a New Zealand/Australian-based intelligent trans-portation systems (ITS) innovator and has been
at the forefront of the ITS industry for more than 15 years.
HMI has established a reputation for expertise in ITS and traffic management systems and equipment, including variable mes-sage signs, speed activated signs, motorway signalling, modem/network-based sys-tems, sensors and integrated location services solutions.
It was based on HMI’s experience working with
governments, communities and transport agencies, that the potential of autonomous vehicles and the supporting layers of infrastructure and systems became apparent.
Following the release of the first fleet of proof of con-cept vehicles in Christchurch in 2017 and trials across New Zealand and Australia with other partners and tech-nologies, HMI subsequently developed their own self-driving and self-learning AV technology company, Ohmio Automotion Ltd.
Auckland-based Ohmio is a commercial company focused on the development and deployment of Level 4+ self-drive vehicles. Hikmet is the chairman of Ohmio Automotion and has a team which includes more than 30 developers and techni-cal experts from around the world, nine of whom holding doctorates.
Ohmio has developed what it believes to be a world-leading self-driving system.
Visit www.ohmio.com for more information.
Kiwi AV company gaining global recognition
Mohammed Hikmet, right, at the Heshan signing. Ohmio Hop AVs have been displayed at various events.
The Ohmio Lift.
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An A$10 mil-lion investment in autonomous
driving trials has been announced by the New South Wales state gov-ernment.
The fund is part of the 2018-19 state budget, revealed on June 19, which earmarks $50 billion for road and rail projects.
The autonomous vehi-cle (AV) fund comes under Transport for NSW’s Smart Innovation Centre and will see $2.5 million spent annu-ally over four years.
The money will allow collaboration between the government, universi-ties and the private sector for AV trials and technol-ogy.
A two-year AV trial at Sydney Olympic Park has been running since late last year. Passengers are expect-ed to be on board between various venues within a few months.
The trial includes HMI
Technologies/Ohmio, which is also doing driverless vehi-cle testing at Christchurch Airport in New Zealand.
New South Wales trans-
port minister Andrew Con-stance says AVs are being built and tested worldwide and will allow new oppor-tunities for personalised transport services. He says Australia needs to ensure it’s
ready.Roads minister
Melinda Pavey says AVs can reduce or even eliminate road deaths.
The AV trials an-nouncement follows the National Trans-port Commission (NTC) saying it plans to create new driving legislation to provide
for AVs on Australian roads.However, Australians
are more cautious about driverless cars than people in many other countries, according to a poll showing one in six would never use one.
An Ipsos survey covering 28 countries found Austral-ians were less optimistic than the international average about the perceived benefits of driverless cars.
Those benefits are listed as safety, speed, efficiency, cost, comfort, environmental impact and enjoyment.
In Australia, of the 1000 people surveyed, 25% say
they “can’t wait to use” a driverless car. In China and India nearly half of those surveyed were in the “can’t wait” category.
The poll found 16% of Australians “would never use” an autonomous vehicle. That puts Australia among the more sceptical nations. Older Australians (21%of those aged over 50) wouldn’t use a driverless car compared with 8% of those under 35.
A KPMG report in January ranked Australia 14th out of 20 countries for AV “readi-ness”, saying Australians are fairly cynical about the technology.
The Ipsos poll found 56% of Australians felt AVs would make driving more comfort-able, the sixth-lowest of the 28 nations.
Autonomous parking was the most attractive feature for Australians.
Ipsos director Jessica Elgood says the findings suggest Australians are taking a wait-and-see approach to driverless cars.
$10 million investment in NSW autonomous driving trial
Andrew Constance Melinda Pavey
The Sydney Olympic Park trial AV.
plugged in the charg-ing is automatically and dynamically split so that some chargers will even serve up to six cars at once, while charging up to four in parallel.
The Delta chargers are also compatible to com-mon e-mobility platforms.
They have a proven
record too. The ultra-fast charger platform has been tested and used at many European sites in all seasons, and was awarded “Sweden’s charging station of the year 2016”.
The ultimate objective is to make EV journeys across Europe as easy as filling the tank of a conventional car.
“Interest has come
from car dealers here as a service offering to custom-ers, for example,” YHI (New Zealand) Power Products divisional manager Aaron Gillon says.
The Delta system is adaptable, able to be scaled up later and also likely to incorporate solar power technology.
Along with Delta prod-
ucts, the YHI (New Zealand) stand at EVworld NZ will also have Rolec charging items available, Gillon says.
“There’s a wealth of new products, such as vehicle to grid capabilities, that are coming through,” he says.
Visit www.yhipower.co.nz or check out their EVworld stand for more information.
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ABB Ltd.
Air New Zealand
BMW
Contact Energy
Fonterra
Foodstuffs North Island
Fuji Xerox
Fujitsu
Giltrap Group
Hyundai New Zealand
ISS Facility Services
Kiwirail
Leaseplan
OCS
Opus
Powerco
Renault New Zealand
SG Fleet
Spark
The Warehouse
Transpower
Turners Auctions
Unison
Vodafone
Waste Management
Watercare
WEL networks
Westpac
Xero
A leading New Zealand electricity generator and retailer, Contact
Energy, is well on track to electrifying its fleet, with the charge being led by the organisation’s geothermal operations near Taupo.
“We have nine EVs at the moment,” fleet manager Chris Girling says. These comprise four Mitsubishi Outlander PHEVs, three Re-
nault Zoes, a Hyundai Ioniq and a Gen 1 Nissan Leaf.
The EVs are on a three-year lease deal which Girling sourced himself with the help of EV Central in Taupo. EV Central imports new EVs directly from the United Kingdom at very favourable prices when compared to New Zealand new equiva-lents, Girling says.
Contact Energy walks the talk in switching over its fleet
Contact Energy’s geothermal EVs charge up.
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WE’RE COMMITTING TO EVsWe’re seeing how some of the New Zealand companies are doing with their commitment to electrify at least 30% of their vehicle fleets by 2019. Contact Energy is among 30 of the country’s employers to agree on the deal.
A Renault Zoe.
While Contact Energy has a number of vehicles in its national fleet, Girling is responsible for the largest number with 33 in the geo-thermal fleet.
They are pool vehicles for use during day-to-day duties. “All staff can just book them for their work use,” Girling says.
The EVs are mainly used by office staff to travel be-tween local stations and are predominantly charged on Contact Energy’s premises. “We have four Rolec double chargers, each having a type 1 and a type 2 lead and two Delta type 1 chargers,” Girling says.
“Nearly all our EVs use type 2 charging except for the Outlanders and the Leaf.”
These are also available for staff to charge their own EVs free, although only one of the 140 staff has an EV at present.
Girling expects EV owner-ship among staff to increase. He says the EV market has seen considerable change
in the past 18 months, with a wider variety of EVs with greater range becoming available.
“Once people understand and appreciate the benefits of driving an EV then more and more become inter-ested.”
The 24kWh Nissan Leaf has a more unusual role in Contact Energy’s fleet. It’s stationed at Taupo airport and used by Contact Energy people visiting the Wairakei power station site, about a 40km round trip.
Girling says that using the Leaf instead of rental vehi-
cles is saving about $42,000 annually.
It uses a charging station at the airport, which has a second charger that can be used free by the public.
Once some of the EVs come to the end of their three-year lease there’s an option for Contact En-ergy staff to pay the residual amount owing and keep the vehicle.
A trial of a Nissan eNV200 40kWh van is being con-sidered when it becomes available in New Zealand later this year. If the trial is successful, the vans could
replace some of the fleet’s Ford Ranger utes. Girling says while four-wheel drive utes are a must in certain circumstances, most of the two-wheel drive utes gener-ally only carry two people and some tools on sealed roads, therefore a light EV van could well be a suitable alternative.
He says most of these vehicles would cover about 60-70km a day.
The fleet Ioniq and Zoes have been used to travel much further, such as to Rotorua and back to Taupo, able to do the 160km round trip comfortably on a single charge.
There is still some “range anxiety” among some of the staff, so a trial run to Napier is on the cards to help allevi-ate this.
Girling is confident that with the greater variety and improved capabilities of EVs coming on the market Con-tact Energy will easily meet its EV target.
Visit www.contact.co.nz for more information.
Contact Energy’s Mitsubishi Outlanders, left, and Hyundai Ioniq.
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probably mean visiting key sections of the country and staying at camp-ing grounds where charging and other facilities would be available.
The students say it’s impossible to see the whole country in a fortnight, as some tourists try to do.
“Many people tell us they’re always driving,” de Bokay says. “Do less but do it better,” she suggests.
Alpe is also considering alternative power sources, such as solar, as the students say they struggled to keep laptops charged to inform followers of their travels.
Lack of wi-fi was a bigger problem in many areas to send their reports, photos and videos.
Alpe says many people were still able to track the students and greet them because “the New Zealand EV community is small and tight”.
He says the pair’s adventures were well advertised because of publicity given through EVtalk, Jucy’s own com-munications, some television coverage and social media such as Facebook.
Alpe says Jucy plans to get its New
Zealand operations to a point where it can then look to doing more in Aus-tralia.
Trinquet says their trip has been an education for many people. “We’ve learned lots too.”
She says some “real work” has to be done educating campers, perhaps through information centres like i-Sites.
Both students say New Zealand is a beautiful country with people to match. They say everyone they met was friendly and helpful, whereas in Paris people don’t speak to strangers.
The two also used the trip to check out sustainable practises here and to establish liaisons between some New Zealand and French schools.
Alpe recently spoke to a University of Auckland class about sustainable tourism and expects that will be part of Jucy’s philosophy. “The bigger picture is around tourism’s impact on our envi-ronment.”
The students say many tourists visit the same spot and take the same photos, whereas they often visited a similar area nearby free from crowds.
“It’s about immersion too,” de Bokay
says. “Go to the local shops, not just the supermarket.”
Trinquet and de Bokay say some of their favourite places include Milford Sound, the Heaphy Track, Lake Ben-more, Farewell Spit, and beaches like Piha.
Other highlights were meeting Californian EVangelist Chelsea Sexton on the Better NZ Trust’s Leading the Charge tour, attending events like the opening of EV City in Christchurch, paragliding and other adventures.
They had a tight budget of 50,000 euros (NZ$84,326), raising 10,000 euros of that in France through crowd-funding and friends.
“We spent about 4000 euros, before even leaving, on photographic and video equipment and essentials,” Trin-quet says.
“We couldn’t have done it without the generous donations and help we’ve received,” de Bokay adds.
They intend raising more to com-plete their documentary.
“We don’t know the cost yet.”Alpe says the whole project has been
“an amazing experience to do”.
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The Everty charging network started in Australia.
It was founded to foster collaboration in the electric vehicle (EV) community and empower consumers to ac-tively participate in building a charging network.
The Sydney start-up was co-founded by sustainability consultant Carola Jonas, after finding difficulty with her plans to charge an electric car at her Coogee home because she only has street parking.
Jonas came up with the idea of a booking service to car charging which allows those with EV charging to make money from their parking and charg-ing spaces.
It gives homeowners some money while providing EV drivers with better charging access EV uptake.
Some EV drivers charge exclusively at home, while others may live in apartments without access to elec-tricity in their car park or street parking, Jonas says. “Many EV drivers, depending on the dis-tance travelled, either on the daily commute or on holidays, have to charge up their EV in
other places.”She says building a modern charging
network cannot be tasked to just one party. “While government support will always play a critical role, many charg-ing stations will be installed by utilities, car manufacturers, motoring groups, businesses and, in some cases, com-munities themselves. Still, the majority of chargers will be installed privately by home and business owners.
“Luckily, the EV community is a friendly bunch of people and many of them are happy to share their charging stations so everyone can have a great experience owning an EV.”
Charging stations are now popping up everywhere.
Charging station owners often pro-vide the electricity for free because they are not able to easily monitor, manage and monetise their asset, Jonas says.
Everty helps EV drivers to find, book and pay for EV charging. The company also works with owners of private and public chargers to make them accessi-ble and to get a return on their invest-ment. Charging station operators can easily list their chargers and receive bookings and/or payments for the use of their chargers and are paid for the electricity they provide.
Visit www.everty.com.au for more information about the Everty platform and software.
Making EV charging easy
Carola Jonas
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USED IMPORTS JUNE 2018MAKE MODEL TOTALBEV - BATTERY ELECTRIC VEHICLENISSAN LEAF 296RENAULT ZOE 13NISSAN E-NV200 5BMW I3 2MITSUBISHI I-MIEV 2HYUNDAI IONIQ 1KIA SOUL 1MITSUBISHI MIEV 1MITSUBISHI MINICAB 1PLUG IN HYBRIDTOYOTA PRIUS 26MITSUBISHI OUTLANDER 9BMW I3 4BMW 330 1
NEW MAKES AND MODELS JUNE 2018MAKE AND MODEL TOTAL
ELECTRIC
HYUNDAI IONIQ 25
TESLA MODEL X 25
VOLKSWAGEN GOLF 22
TESLA MODEL S 7
BMW I 3
NISSAN LEAF 1
RENAULT KANGOO 1
FACTORY BUILT TEG HUNAN 1
PLUG-IN HYBRID
MITSUBISHI OUTLANDER 33
TOYOTA PRIUS 5
AUDI A3 4
HYUNDAI IONIQ 4
BMW I3 2
KIA NIRO 2
MINI COUNTRYMAN 2
BMW 3 SERIES 1
BMW 5 SERIES 1
BMW I8 1
VOLVO XC90 1
fault it’s usually just a matter of re-placing a faulty cell and not the entire battery.
Even if the mower batteries run out of juice on the job there’s enough power for the user to get back to their trailer or base station after the blades stop rotating.
Scott says that in New Zealand they estimate that at least 40% of all mow-ing done by councils, large institutions and contractors could be managed by Mean Green electric machines.
“In terms of annual carbon emissions, replacing one ride-on diesel mower is equivalent to taking 10 cars off the road,” he says. “But, this hides the fact that the real situation is much worse. Many of the components in diesel exhaust, such as volatile organic com-pounds, fine particle matter, etc, are not included in carbon calculations.
Taking these other pollutants into ac-count can change the numbers dramat-ically – namely, around 200 cars worth of emissions from just one mower.”
The lithium energy modules (LEMs)
Going ‘green’ on mowers
City Care’s Mean Green CXR-60 electric mowing at Christchurch Airport.
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Half way through 2018 the 8000 end-of-year electric vehicle target has already been well
exceeded.
EV numbers continue upward trendNew Zealand’s EV fleet stood at
8696 to the end of June 2018, 507 more than recorded in May.
At this rate, the country will have more than 11,000 EVs by the end of 2018. That’s well on track to meeting the 16,000 goal for 2019 to achieve the previous government’s aim of 64,000 EVs by the end of 2021.
Add in the Auckland regional fuel tax from July 1, a national fuel tax which applies from September 30, a possible “feebate” to encourage low-emission
vehicles, the growing variety of EV models with increased range available and expanding charging infrastructure, and the 64,000 goal, appears even more achievable.
The latest Ministry of Transport EV figures show used imports continuing their dominance in the EV market.
Used light pure electrics made up 4764 of June’s 8696 total. That com-pares with 4434 in May – a rise of 330.
New light pure electric vehicles reached 1633 to the end of June 2018, up 82 on the previous month.
New light plug-in hybrids totalled 1540, 54 more than in May (1486).
Used light plug-in hybrids reached 676, 40 more than the previous month.
Heavy EVs again barely moved, June’s 83 only one more than in both April and May.
July’s heavy EV figures are expected to be boosted by the arrival of Welling-ton’s 10 electric buses, due on the road from July 15.
rooms, service centres, EV promo-tional events and the like.
Contact YHI on 0800 877 359, [email protected], www.yhipower.co.nz for more information.
More on YHI, including new products and its display at EVworld NZ in Auckland on August 9-11 feature on P20.
Powerful new sponsor
used to power Mean Green Mowers last for a very long time at full capacity – around 8000 hours for the industrial CXR-60 model, the company says.
Most contractors will mow for around 1000 hours annually.
The batteries then gradually de-crease in holding capacity and can be repurposed for other uses such as solar power storage and eventually recycled.
Visit www.meangreenmowers.co.nz for more information.
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June 5Cops patrol on e-bikesAuckland police patrolled the downtown area on electric bikes during Queen’s Birthday weekend.
The aim was to bust those using cell phones while driv-ing and people not wearing seatbelts.
Police have previously used conventional push-bikes, but the electric bikes make the job easier, road policing’s Simon Welsh says.
June 7Leaf lifts EV numbersMay was the biggest month ever for the Nissan Leaf with 338 registered in New Zealand.
That’s helped electric vehi-cles pass the 8000 target for this year six months early.
In fact, 8184 electric and hybrid vehicles were recorded by the Ministry of Transport by the end of May. That confirms a comment made at the Drive Electric white paper launch on May 29, reported in EVtalk, that EVs had gone beyond 8000.
June 11Electric buses coming to ChristchurchRed Bus will introduce a fully electric urban bus service to Christchurch early next year.
This follows the signing of a deal to purchase three electric buses, expected to be delivered by next March.
The new buses will be used on the 11.7km route 29 between downtown Christch-urch and Christchurch Airport, carrying more than 200,000 passengers annually.
June 12
New BMW i8 Roadster and Coupe herePricing and specs have been announced for the new plug-in hybrid BMW i8 Roadster and i8 Coupe arriving in New Zea-land showrooms this month.
The Coupe is $286,200 and the Roadster $309,900 – both excluding on-road costs.
June 13More money for EV innovatorsAn extra million dollars is now available for EV funding in New Zealand during the next year.
That makes $7 million available for the Energy Ef-ficiency and Conservation Authority (EECA) low emission vehicles contestable fund for rounds five and six.
June 15BMW NZ announces new managing directorElectric vehicle advocate Florian Renndorfer will relin-quish leadership of BMW New Zealand on September 1.
Renndorfer, who has overseen the rollout BMW’s electric models since he took up the role in 2015 and promoted the benefits of EVs in New Zealand, will return to the company’s Munich office.
He is set to take the lead of worldwide sales development and sales steering for BMW Motorrad.
Kiwi electric motorbike wins international awardKiwi company UBCO has re-ceived the International Inno-vation Award for its two-wheel drive electric utility vehicle.
Agriculture minister Damien O’Connor presented
the honour at the 50th New Zealand Agricultural Fieldays at Mystery Creek, Hamilton, June 13-16.
June 18Kiwi AV company signs China dealA US$20 million investment agreement has been reached between Auckland-based HMI Technologies/Ohmio and Heshan city in China.
The deal with the Heshan Industrial City Management Committee allows an Ohmio plant to be established there for making autonomous vehicles (AV), and an artificial Intelligence transport (ITS) research centre.
The agreement applies from July 1.
Cycling rise includes e-bikesCycling is an increasingly popular way of getting around Auckland – and that includes electric bikes.
About 38% of Aucklanders are riding bikes in 2018, Auck-land Transport’s latest Active Modes Research shows.
That’s up three percent-age points on last year, with 518,000 Aucklanders now rid-ing regularly or occasionally.
June 19Uber Air plans electric flying taxiAuckland, Sydney and Mel-bourne are in the mix for the third city on a worldwide list for a possible Uber Air electric flying taxi service.
The California-based ridesharing firm plans to test the technology in Los Angeles and Dallas in Texas, with one of the three southern hemi-sphere cities expected to be revealed by the end of 2018.
June 20Christchurch Airport moves towards all-electric fleetChristchurch Airport is the first
South Island business to sign up to a global initiative, EV100, transitioning its vehicle fleet to 100% electric.
Airport chief executive Malcolm Johns says the move will strengthen its efforts to become more sustainable and he’s challenging other businesses to make the same commitment.
Electric Merc due here 2019Mercedes-Benz New Zealand confirms it could have the all-electric EQC SUV here in late 2019.
The electric Merc is ex-pected to go into production next year.
Testing is being held in Spain during the northern hemisphere summer, mainly to see how dry heat affects the battery, Electrek reports.
June 22Nissan Leaf 30kWh checks continueFlip the Fleet and electrical engineer Walter Larason of EVs Enhanced have responded to EVtalk’s story about a soft-ware upgrade being issued for the Nissan Leaf 30kWh.
Nissan says the update will “fix the 2016 and 2017 Nissan Leaf 30kWh battery control-ler’s inaccurate calculations’ state of health (SoH) and range”.
But Henrik Moller of Flip the Fleet says “there is as yet insufficient information avail-able to form any reliable scien-tific conclusion about whether Nissan’s instrumentation error is a sufficient explana-tion for the observed declines in reported battery health of 30kWh Leafs”.
June 25EV owners share the lovePeople may be kinder to their family and wider community after buying an electric vehicle (EV).
That’s an unexpected result from the latest Flip the Fleet
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June 5Posties go electricAustralia Post is switching to electric delivery vehicles.
It’s starting with two-wheelers and a three-wheeled scooter which can carry three times more letters and parcels than a regular postie motorbike.
The company has held several small-scale trials of Renault electric delivery vans.
June 11Electric car owners take actionRather than wait for gov-ernment action, an electric vehicle owners’ group got on with the job of ensuring a charger covers Australia’s
most popular routes.An “Electric Highway”
three-year project is nearing completion, transforming many parts of populated Australia where there were previously few or no electric vehicle chargers available.
The voluntary initiative of the Tesla Owners Club of Australia (TOCA) split the costs with the Australian Elec-tric Vehicle Association.
June 15Australia’s EV industry gains momentum – reportAustralia’s electric vehicle in-dustry grew slightly last year, but there’s considerable room for improvement.
So says a report released
on June 15 by the Electric Vehicle Council (EVC) and ClimateWorks Australia.
June 18EV sales half of new car purchases within 12 yearsElectric vehicle sales could comprise 50% of new car purchases by 2030, and 100% by 2040, a new report for the Australian Government says.
That’s likely to increase pressure on policy makers to find new revenue sources to replace the $17 billion annu-ally raised in fuel taxes, The Australian reports.
June 29EV select committee establishedSouth Australia senator Tim Storer will chair a select com-mittee on electric vehicles (EVs).
The committee will inves-
tigate the economic, envi-ronmental and social ben-efits of widespread EV uptake in Australia; the opportunity for the development of EV manufacturing, supply and value chain activities; and how the federal, state and territory governments can better work together to sup-port these goals.
survey which asked EV own-ers how their transport habits have changed.
Nearly two thirds (62%) of the 474 EV owners who responded reported that their transport habits either hadn’t changed, or had only changed a little, since buying an EV.
The low-down on adding EVs to fleetsA guide for businesses consid-ering transitioning their fleet to electric vehicles includes two contrasting examples. One is Westpac NZ’s intro-duction this June of 65 new electric and plug-in hybrid Hyundai Ioniq cars to its fleet, leased from Custom Fleet.
The other is Meridian En-ergy’s ownership, rather than lease, of second-generation near-new Nissan Leafs and late model all-electric Hyun-dai Ioniqs, along with the latest Nissan Leafs.
The two are model exam-ples included in Drive Electric’s
newly released white paper Building an Electric Fleet: A “How-to” Guide for Businesses Considering Transitioning to Electric Vehicles.
June 26Feeding the EV pipelineAn issue plaguing the motor industry is feeding the pipeline of vehicles to meet the Gov-ernment’s target of 64,000 electric vehicles registered by 2021.
Meeting the needs of the future EV retail industry, as well as the skill shortage in EV servicing, are some of the issues addressed by the EVworld NZ Motor Industry Forum on August 9.
This forum provides the lead in to the EVworld NZ Industry Conference and trade expo on August 10 and a free public day on August 11 at the ASB Showgrounds in Auckland – all hosted by Conferenz.
Z Energy exploring EV ‘opportunity’The electric vehicle (EV) dis-ruption presented to the fuel industry is still a way off and Z Energy has time to prepare.
That’s the message from Z Energy board chairman Peter Griffiths to its annual share-holders meeting in Wellington on June 21.
June 27Free EV charging at selected Auckland carparksFree EV charging is provided at Auckland Council carparks under a new partnership.
Auckland Transport (AT) and ChargeNet NZ have formed a strategic partner-ship to install the first 27 of a network of 60 free standard EV charging stations around Auckland.
The first are at the Down-town carpark – level 1B (six
chargers), Fanshawe Street – level 1A (six), Victoria Street – level six entry (three), Ron-wood in Manukau – ground floor entry (six), and the Civic carpark – level one (six).
June 30Kiwis put electric ute in Aussie minesA Kiwi company is behind an electric ute Australian min-ing giant BHP is putting in its underground fleet of 240 light vehicles.
Manawatu-based Zero Emission Vehicles (ZEV) launched the Voltra e-ute at EVworld NZ in Auckland in 2017 and has since refined it and packed it off to its Ad-elaide facilities.
Adapted from the Toyota Land Cruiser 70 Series and dubbed an eCruiser, the EV is going into BHP’s trial for a planned light electric vehi-cle (LEV) fleet at its Olympic Dam copper mine in South Australia.
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