The New Zealand government has plans to ban the import of internal combustion engine vehicles by 2040 as part of its net-zero efforts. According to local publication Stuff, a draft document prepared by the country’s Climate Change Commission suggests that “Decarbonising transport will require a rapid increase in electric vehicle (EV) sales so that nearly all vehicles entering the country are electric by 2035.” The move will be part of a push to achieve an almost complete electrification of transport that assumes that nearly all…
