Talk:Plug-in electric vehicles in New Zealand

Sore need of an update
I've done some things, like update the stats for year-end 2023 in the lead and the table, and mentioned the end of the EV subsidy scheme. However, a bunch of the policy stuff, and the sales and most popular models, is out of date. Probably the most remarkable thing about this article is that there is no mention anywhere of the Nissan Leaf. There are 23,067 Leafs in New Zealand, making up about 30% of all BEVs in the fleet, a fact easily overlooked when only considering new registration data. This is because 95% of New Zealand Leafs are second-hand. New Zealand's imported second-hand cars are overwhelmingly from Japan (a similarly LHT country), and Japan's peculiarly slow adoption of BEVs (the Leaf being their only notable contribution until very recently) has strongly shaped adoption of second-hand BEVs in New Zealand. It's also worth noting that as of year-end 2023, the Nissan Leaf outnumbers the two next most popular manufacturers combined (17,348 Tesla and 5,411 BYD registered BEVs). Here's some more refs: — Jon (talk) 02:12, 19 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Nissan NZ basically couldn't shift the Nissan Leaf new, due to parallel importers and second-hand dealers flooding the market with cheap second-hand Leafs from Japan. After achieving only "a handful of sales during a three year push" they gave up and removed it from new inventory in 2016 (resuming 3 years later as the EV market picked up).
 * New Zealand being a left-hand traffic country may be restricting our vehicle market, especially second-hand vehicles, which is why there are so many Leaf imports from Japan.
 * Okay fine I fixed it to some extent — Jon (talk) 04:55, 8 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Hey Jon, there's a Commons photo I took you might like to use: File:Electric Vehicle Charging Station Wellington.jpg Quilt Phase (talk) 04:47, 18 February 2024 (UTC)