The National Party’s Commanding Victory During Saturday Night’s General Election Is Set To Spell The End Of The Clean Car Discount ‘Feebate’ Scheme

The National Party’s commanding victory during Saturday Night’s general election is set to spell the end of the Clean Car Discount ‘feebate’ scheme, which implemented sizable rebates for electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids while also pinging high-emission vehicles like utes. National issued a pledge in September that it planned to eliminate the Clean Car Discount by December 31 of this year if elected into office, noting that Labour had promised that the scheme would be fiscally neutral – a promise that had not come to fruition. First rolled out in mid-2021, the Clean Car Discount was solely a rebate-based programme, with new and used EVs and PHEVs earning generous rebates in order to encourage consumers to shift to greener vehicles to combat climate change and energise transition.