Uber driver thinks RUC changes need tweak

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Uber driver thinks RUC changes need tweak

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Radio New Zealand

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Radio New Zealand

Description

An Uber driver who's gone electric says he's happy to pay road user charges, but if the govenrment wants to keep driving people toward cleaner greener options, it's got to carve the costs up fairly. From April, light electric vehicles that have previously been exempt from road user charges will have to pay. The cost is 76 dollars per thousand kilometres. By comparison, a much heavier diesel truck weighing between three and half thousand and 6000 kilograms currently pays 82 dollars every thous...

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Date created

25 January 2024

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Checkpoint

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https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/checkpoint/audio/2018923406/uber-driver-thinks-ruc-chan...

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