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The <a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.co.nz\/2024\/02\/07\/ev-sales-plummet-after-clean-car-discount-scrapped\/\">collapse in the EV market<\/a> was instant: In 2023 around one in four new cars sold was electric, by early 2024 that had plummeted to one in 26.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cut fees on high-polluting vehicle imports <a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.co.nz\/2025\/11\/18\/govt-moves-urgently-to-make-it-cheaper-to-import-dirty-cars\/\">by nearly 80%<\/a> despite officials warning it would cost Kiwi drivers <strong>an extra $115 million at the pump<\/strong>. Now Ministers are considering going further and scrapping<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/political\/588668\/government-considering-scrapping-entire-clean-car-standard\"> the clean car standard entirely,<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>C<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/political\/506674\/national-led-government-officially-cancels-auckland-light-rail-plans\">ancelling Auckland Light Rail<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/wellington-mayor-tory-whanau-blasts-nationals-flaccid-vision-of-scrapping-transport-plan\/S75WX4KH5FEOLPCCX3YTEULHGQ\/\"><strong>scrapping<\/strong> Wellington\u2019s low-emissions transport <\/a>plan, both of which aimed to reduce car dependence in the country&#8217;s major cities.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ending <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/514258\/young-commuters-feeling-the-pinch-as-government-ends-public-transport-subsidy\">\u00a0half price<\/a>\u00a0 public transport fares for young people\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>S<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/politics\/governments-transport-shake-up-new-roads-in-cycleways-out\/ODVUVNJMW5CDBLQ4DFO75PLB2A\/\">lashing funding<\/a> for public transport, walking and cycleways while pouring billions into 17 roads of \u201cnational significance\u201d &#8211; the total cost of those roads has now blown <a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.co.nz\/2025\/10\/23\/5-1b-cost-blowout-for-eight-roads-of-national-significance\/\">out to between $44 &#8211; $54 billion<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.odt.co.nz\/news\/national\/has-cutting-corporate-welfare-created-coal-headache\">Cancelling the Government Investment in Decarbonising Industry (GIDI)<\/a> fund, which helped businesses move away from fossil fuels.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Plans to build a new LNG import terminal so that New Zealand can begin importing and burning fossil gas for electricity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>\u201cThis Government is effectively turning New Zealand into a dumping ground for the world\u2019s dirtiest, most oil-hungry cars while other countries rapidly switch to EVs,\u201d Toop says.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cAt the same time they are slashing public and active transport options which forces more people into cars leaving them facing more pain at the pump when petrol prices spike.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cThis latest plan to build a multi-billion dollar LNG import terminal is ludicrous. Importing and burning another volatile fossil fuel is the last thing our climate, and power bills need. 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