TE TAHA PŌURI O NGĀ MOTUKA HIKO.
Whenua Pātī

Kei te tino teitei ngā hoko o ngā waka hiko. Engari, e ai ki tētahi whānau i St. Petersburg, FL, kua kitea, he nui hoki ngā utu mō te whakakapi i ā rātou pākahiko.

I kōrero a Avery Siwinksi ki te 10 Tampa Bay, nā tana Ford Focus Electric o te tau 2014 kua whakamahia, ka taea e ia te taraiwa i a ia anō ki te kura, he tikanga whakawhiti i te tāone iti e mōhiotia ana e te tini o ngā taiohi. I utua e tōna whānau te $11,000 mō tēnei, ā, i ngā marama tuatahi e ono, i pai katoa ngā mea.
"I te tīmatanga i pai," te kōrero a Avery Siwinski ki te 10 Tampa Bay. "I tino aroha ahau ki a ia. He iti, he marino, he ātaahua. Ā, kātahi ka mutu te mahi."

I te tīmatanga o te waka ki te tuku i tētahi whakatūpato tere i te marama o Poutū-te-rangi, ka haria e Siwinski ki te kaihokohoko me te āwhina a tōna koroua, a Ray Siwinksi. Kāore i pai te tātaritanga: me whakakapi he pākahiko. Ko te utu? $14,000, he nui ake i tana i utu ai mō te motuka i te tuatahi. Ko te mea kino rawa atu, kua mutu te hanga a Ford i te tauira Focus Electric e whā tau ki muri, nō reira kāore i te wātea te pākahiko i ēnei rā.
"Ki te hoko koe i tētahi mea hou, me mārama koe kāore he mākete tuarua i tēnei wā nā te mea kāore ngā kaihanga e tautoko ana i ngā motuka," te whakatūpato a Ray i te kaiwhakapāho.

Hinga Papatahi
E whakaatu ana te pūrākau i tētahi take nui e tū mai nei mō te mākete EV.

Ina tangohia te EV mai i te rori, ko te mea pai ko te hangarua, te whakamahi anō rānei i ōna pākahiko. Engari kāore anō kia tae mai ngā hanganga hanga me te hangarua pākahiko EV — i waho atu i Haina — ā, ka nui ake te hiahia mō ngā rauemi e hiahiatia ana hei hanga i ngā pākahiko. Haunga te uaua ake o te hangarua i ngā pākahiko waikawa mata i roto i ngā motuka tuku iho, he tino taumaha, he utu nui hoki te kawe i ngā pākahiko EV.

Āe, kāore e taea te wareware i te korenga o te lithium e tata mai ana. He take tēnei e rapuhia ana e te US ki te whakatika, me te panuitanga a te Tari Pūngao i ngā mahere ki te hanga i ngā tipu pākahiko EV hou e 13 i te tau 2025.
Ko te pono o te pākahiko tētahi atu take nui. He pai te pumau o ngā pākahiko Tesla ina heke te kounga, engari kāore i te tino waimarie ngā rangatira o ngā tauira tawhito mai i ētahi atu kaihanga. I tēnei wā, e kī ana te ture ā-motu me whakamanahia ngā pākahiko EV mō ngā tau e waru, arā, 100,000 maero — engari ahakoa he pai ake tēnā i te kore rawa, he mea whakama te whakaaro ki te whakakapi i te miihini ki te waka penehīni i muri i ngā tau e waru noa iho.