Author: Vern Whitehead
Vern Whitehead is the founder of Auto Media Group, now the pre-eminent news source for the auto industries in both New Zealand and Australia. Has spent a lifetime in news gathering for the auto industry, produced the first computerised reference guide for dealers (Autodeal) and helped establish the first commercial F&I network in NZ (Dealer Systems). Lives on Waiheke Island and when not writing about the auto industry is helping realise the vision of an all-electric island by 2030.
This story first appeared in the September issue of evtalk AU – CLICK HERE to download the magazine FREE GreenSync is a Melbourne-based global energy-teach company that is connecting millions of distributed energy resources (DERs) and turning electricity grids into market places. “Every smart device connecting to grids …
Hyundai plans to bring in up to 44 new EV models before 2025. How many of these models make it to the Australian and New Zealand market largely depends on the uptake of Hyundai’s Kona, Ioniq and Nexo models – and of the success of the just-launched new …
This story first appeared in the June issue of AutoTalk – CLICK HERE to download the magazine FREE After years of dragging the chain on electric vehicle development, Japanese giant Toyota has finally woken and announced a goal of getting half its global sales from electric vehicles by …
This story first appeared in the may issue of autotalkau – CLICK HERE to download the magazine FREE Smaller pure-electric cars will have a lower upfront price than internal combustion equivalents around 2023. This is the opinion of Dr Peter Harrop, a leading expert in electric vehicles and …
This story first appeared in the April issue of AutoTalk – CLICK HERE to download the magazine FREE Confused with the acronyms and all the claims to be “electrified” surrounding electric vehicles? You are not alone. So, to clarify matters once and for all, the term EV applies …
The difficulties of electrifying large fleets of vehicles “at the bottom of the world” were emphasised by Meridian Energy property and procurement manager Nick Robilliard at the Nordic EV Summit in Oslo on March 21 and 22. “We’ve made some progress in New Zealand with moves to electrification …
This story first appeared in the february issue of Evtalk – CLICK HERE to download the magazine FREE Tucked away in a back street in suburban Virginia is Brisbane’s centre of used electric vehicles (EV) imports into Australia. The workshop is full of Mitsubishi i-MiEVs, Nissan e-NV200 vans …
This story first appeared in the September issue of EVtalk – CLICK HERE to download the magazine FREE Claire Painter is a smart young woman who has managed efforts to reduce emissions across Australia’s transport and energy sectors. Now she has left the non-profit and academic world for …
The Hyundai Ioniq reached the final three places of the New Zealand Car of the Year awards last evening – the first battery electric vehicle to do so. Earlier in the evening the Ioniq took out a new category at the awards, winning the EV/plug-in hybrid car of …
When giants such as Google, Toyota and Nissan gather to consider something new it is time to pay attention. This “next big thing” is energy independent electric vehicles (EIVs). Their impact on society and industry will, in due course, be seismic. Meeting at the Technical University of Delft …
