Kiwi electric vehicle owners are being recruited for a world-first project aimed at boosting uptake and busting some of the misconceptions around EVs. The just-launched Flip The Fleet project tasks EV owners as citizen scientists, sharing detailed information to build a better picture of how the vehicles are performing. After more than 100 EV owners agreed to test-drive the system, Moller and Ivanov launched Flip the Fleet to the public last week. EVs in New Zealand• As at May 2017 there were an estimated 3576 electric vehicles in New Zealand, of which 918 were new light plug-in hybrids, 1611 were used light pure EVs and 840 were new pure EVs. *Pure EVs are now out-selling plug-in hybrids: 81 per cent of of EV registrations between January and May this year were pure EVs.

Source: New Zealand Herald July 02, 2017 03:11 UTC