A few surprises here, namely that PHEVs will pay a lower rate of RUCs, I was under the impression there would be a rebate scheme for petrol purchased.
No revisions to the weight brackets, which I imagine will be necessary before all vehicles eventually go to RUCs.
If they wanted to get really ‘equitable’ on road users paying the cost of the roads they use they could commit to tolling the white elephant motorways they’re planning on building.
Given petrol tax and RUC are user pays, as in the more you use roads the more you pay, what would the benefit of toll roads be?
Most motorways are actually cost positive as far as maintenance is concerned, due to the relatively low maintenance cost relative to the amount of traffic they serve.
Out of curiosity, which projects do you think will be “white elephants”?
All of them. They will increase sprawl, increase emissions and make congestion worse in cities.
I don’t think you understand what a “white elephant” typically means.
I think I do, spending tens of billions of dollars on motorways to make traffic worse and increase transport emissions when they need to be reducing is a bad deal. It also starved the rest of the road network of maintenance funds the last time they did this.
A “white elephant” is something that isn’t being used, or is too expensive to maintain.
You can always tell the office workers on here, they have no concept of the idea some people need a vehicle to do their job.
Wow, trying to take it personal huh. People who need a vehicle for work would benefit from people who have other options besides driving through fewer vehicles on the road. I have told you this before, but you seem to be trying to claim I’m advocating people not to have vehicles fullstop.
See, you can repeat the same line as much as you want, but it just doesn’t work like that.
The Kapiti coast, for example, has great public transport, especially in and out of Wellington, and traffic was still a nightmare until transmission gully opened.
The Hutt Valley is the same, great public transport available, and yet the motorway still chokes up at rush hour.
Reality just doesn’t align with your trite catchphrases, unfortunately.
If only there was an app that can change my leafs odometer…
Not like the good old days when you could just reach behind the dash and disconnect the speedometer.
Wouldn’t you run into issues if you went to sell it though? I guess if you were planning to run it into the ground it wouldn’t matter
I guess you change the odometer less than you use it, so it looks like you’ve only done 1,000km in the last year when actually you’ve done 10,000?
I wonder if the new speed cameras that record your number plate could be used to check for odo changes? Like if they know you drove through that 10km (or whatever) zone twice a day every day, they would (or at least could) know that you’ve driven 5,000km over the 250 working days so they could tag you for closer inspection or something?
I don’t know why they don’t change it to RUC for every vehicle; get rid of the variable of fuel usage.
If you drive an older car that gets 10l/100km, you pay at least twice the road tax as someone that drives a modern hybrid that is in the 4-6l/100km range. So the road tax is favoring those that can already afford to buy a modern efficient car.
That was a campaign promise, and is part of the coalition agreement between National and Act, as far as I know.
There have been discussions around an E RUC system, which I hope comes through. The existing systems are aimed at companies rather than individuals, and buying RUCs is a pain in the ass.
The rebate scheme for PHEVs would make more sense, as the amount of petrol they need can vary wildly depending on the battery size and average trip distance.
I wonder if you add a generator to your EV to make it into a PHEV, do you then pay less RUCs?
I can absolutely see why they went with a lower rate of RUCs though, what they were proposing would have been a nightmare to administer, and a pain in the ass for owners.
About fucking time too!
