There is huge potential for electric vehicles in New Zealand because of our vast renewable energy sources. From a sustainability perspective, this is quite important, as it could offer a way to reduce our carbon emissions. Transport consumes the most energy in New Zealand. In fact, over a third of all energy consumption in the
Last week one of our collaborators, Mighty River Power sponsored an Auckland Council event with the key speaker Tony Seba a lecturer in Entrepreneurship at Stanford University. This provocative presentation about Clean Disruption in Transport highlights some interesting trends and his conclusions about where public / private transport is heading (and in his view heading there
Physicist Emeritus Professor Gerry Carrington , lead author on Royal Society of New Zealand’s recent paper on Facing the Future: Towards a Green Economy for New Zealand, was recently 
interviewed by Shane Gallagher and Samuel Mann on Otago Access
Every day we make decisions about how we travel. These decisions include whether to go somewhere, where to go and how to get there. While we have some control over how we travel, there are a wh
ole range of things that we don’t
Recruitment drive for non-drivers and non-car owners!
As part of the Energy Cultures research programme, we are conducting research into generation Y’s travel behaviours. For this research we require participants who:
o Have grown up in Dunedin (especially ages 14-20)
o Either, not have their drivers licence (or only learners) OR have a licence but have decided not to own a
There’s good evidence that car use may have peaked and other forms of transport will take its place.
Listener Article by Rebecca Priestley