Motor Industry Association CEO David Crawford says "consultants" are the only people bullish about the electric vehicle (EV) market.
While vehicle manufacturers are scrambling to make lower-emitting vehicles, the uptake might not happen as soon as the Climate Change Commission and now credit rating agency, Fitch, are predicting, Crawford told interest.co.nz.
Fitch said the Government’s feebate scheme reinforces its bullish outlook for New Zealand’s EV market.
The scheme, announced on Sunday, will see buyers of newly imported, new or used, high-emitting vehicles pay a fee, and buyers of low-emitting vehicles receive a rebate.
Fitch forecasts the country’s EV sales growing at an average annual rate of 55.5% between now and 2030.
“This represents an EV penetration rate of 58.4% by the end of 2030, up from around 2% in 2020,” Fitch said.
“We also note that there is some additional room for stronger growth as New Zealand's government will likely… follow the European Union trend of banning the sales of ICE [internal combustion engine] vehicles before the end of this decade.”
The Climate Change Commission said New Zealand will need to stop importing ICE vehicles between 2030 and 2035 to meet its proposed emissions budgets.
“This is in line with decisions by other developed countries and with the latest modelling by the International Energy Agency,” the Commission said.
It said EVs could make up at least half of New Zealand’s total light vehicle imports by 2029. By 2035, 46% of all light vehicle travel could be in EVs and 36% of light vehicles on our roads could be electric.
“About 50% of vehicles imported into Aotearoa are used and about 90% of these used vehicles come from Japan. The speed with which Japan rolls out EVs will affect how quickly we can roll out EVs here in Aotearoa in the short term,” the Commission said.
“Historically EV uptake in Japan has been low. However, Japan is aiming for all vehicles entering their fleet from the mid-2030s to be low-emissions vehicles.
“We have reflected these constraints in our recommended emissions budgets. We heard from some submitters during consultation that our assumptions for EV uptake were too ambitious given these supply constraints.
“In our final advice, we have amended our assumptions and have highlighted different paths that could achieve our recommended emissions budgets.”
Indeed, Crawford said the manufacture of EVs was the issue.
He noted the market for New Zealand-friendly vehicles, where the driver is on the right-hand side of the vehicle, is smaller than the market for vehicles where the driver is on the left. So, the likes of the US and Europe stand to benefit more from developments in EV technology.
While demand for utes is high in New Zealand, it isn’t elsewhere. So electric utes are last in line when it comes to research and development.
Demand for electric cars, SUVs and vans on the other-hand is high in across all markets.
Crawford disagreed with Fitch, which suggested electric pick-up trucks could start hitting the domestic market in 2023/24, at which point the feebate scheme would reduce the cost differential between electric and petrol/diesel utes.
Fitch referenced the Ford F-150 Lightening, however Crawford said this sort of vehicle was larger than utes commonly used in New Zealand and targeted to the US market.
“Based on feedback from members of the Association, one or two brands are working hard to get in a fully electric ute,” Crawford said.
“But our expectation is plug-in hybrid (PHEV) utes might become more widely available by 2025 and full battery electric (BEV) utes after that.
“There are a range of BEV vans on the market now and we expect more models will become available in the next 12 to 24 months.
“Speculation by [government] Ministers of when models are coming to the market is unhelpful and potentially misleading. At worst it becomes a death nell to business continuity.”
The Climate Change Commission said: “We estimate the additional upfront cost for a EV in Aotearoa is currently around $16,000 excluding GST, of which about $11,000 is the cost of the battery.
“However, the outlook is positive, with leading international analysts such as Bloomberg New Energy Finance forecasting that electric cars will be cheaper to make than petrol cars by 2030.
“These expected cost reductions come through a combination of falling battery costs and other manufacturing cost reductions as automakers retool their production lines and scale up EV production. The cost of lithium ion batteries has already fallen 88% from 2010 to 2020 and is projected to more than halve again by 2030.”
Crawford said the Motor Industry Association supports the Government’s feebate scheme, having lobbied for it.
He said New Zealand was playing catch-up with the policy. He maintained it would help distributors in New Zealand negotiate better access to lower-emitting vehicles.
He said the Government was still working out the formula that will be used to calculate fees and rebates.
The feebate scheme - overview
Under the feebate scheme, buyers of low-emitting cars will be able to get a rebate from July 1, 2021, while buyers of high-emitting vehicles will have to pay a fee from January 1, 2022.
The rules will apply to new and used vehicles that arrive in New Zealand. Fees and rebates won’t be applied to sales of already-registered vehicles within the domestic second-hand market.
The maximum fee will be $5175 for a new vehicle and $2875 for a used one.
The maximum rebate will be $8625 for a new vehicle and $3450 for a used one.
Rebates will be available for vehicles worth less than $80,000 that have at least a three-star safety rating.
They’ll be issued for electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles first registered from July 1. From January 1, a set of smaller rebates will be available for low-emitting vehicles that can’t be plugged in.
Waka Kotahi New Zealand Transport Agency will administer the feebate scheme, and will issue rebates/collect fees directly from vehicle purchasers, not dealers.
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Me thinks Fitch should stick to credit ratings! Is this where the brains trust have been getting their advice from?
Make no mistake, I have no issue with EV's. I have a massive problem with the hocus pocus forecasts of EV uptake and availability being thrown about. Fitch now "experts" on all things EV! Give me a break!
I notice that the EV Ford 150 is shown. It will be a long time before we see these here. There will be no incentive for Ford America to produce a right hand drive version as they wont be able to keep up with left hand drive demand if it takes off in popularity. It will also be hugely expensive and is just to big for most ute applications here. Same goes for any Tesla or other US derived ute.
Adhern's and co can make whatever claims they like but the fact is there is not and will not be anytime soon a practical affordable EV ute to replace our Rangers and Hilux's!
These halfwits don't give a stuff about tradie's and farmers or anyone requiring a ute for work or play!
I for one will be quite glad if the EV utes don't arrive for a while. Take the driving attitude/driving ability of your average ford ranger driver and imagine them in something larger, heavier and with the acceleration that 10years ago was only available to supercars and sports bikes.
Your perception of what vehicles we need, needs to change.
We are currently living an unsustainable existence. Part of that is using Finite energy resources to power large trucks to tow large recreation boats to the Water where they zoom around burning even more Finite energy resources... just for the fun of it.
So this equation needs to change. Either we find alternative tech /vehicles, or the activities need to stop.
You may not like this, but it's this simple. The sooner you accept it the easier your upcoming life will be. The changes are now happening and the pace of change will only quicken from Here.
So can’t we use large EVs to tow large EV boats to the sea and still hoon around? Might even catch more fish cos electric motors are quieter. And just what is wrong with fun?
One thought: how will Clark Gayford’s TV show where he tows his huge boat with a huge car sit with Ms Ardern’s ‘nuclear’ moment re climate change? I foresee some sleeping on the couch.
And THAT is what the article should have been about.
Asking a vested-interest what might be ahead, is only going to get predictable replies. There is no way we make it to the mid-2030's with the 'global economy' still intact - I wonder whenever Japan is mentioned, whether anyone realises that's where the world is headed too, but that if we're all there it can't work?
This is the core of the problem:
https://surplusenergyeconomics.wordpress.com/2021/06/07/202-the-shape-o…
I'm a big fan of this scheme, but can't get past a logic gap
- The rebate starts 6 months before the extra charges for emitting vehicles
- They've said it's a cost neutral plan, and they'll put it on hiatus if costs exceed fees
So it will rack up bills for 6 months, which immediately puts it on the back foot?
In Ford F150 news (from this morning).
2021 Ford F-150 Recall
Item Affected: STEERING: RACK AND PINION Date Announced: 05/29/2021Description of Recall:Ford Motor Company (Ford) is recalling certain 2021 F-150 vehicles. The steering gear may have internal damage, which could result in difficulty steering, or the inability to rotate the steering wheel while driving.
These are what the government consultants want you to have.
We had the same thing happen before, got Russian Belarus, tractors forced on us. Terrible things. Worse than Zetor & Skoda ( remember the Fiat knock-offs).
During the cold war, the Belarus tractors that were sold in western markets were infamous for their low quality compared to western manufacturers tractors.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belarus_(tractor)
The recently launched Crystal HD model resurrects a name that first appeared in 1968. It will be remembered for its utilitarian design and a cab larger than most Kiwi baches of the day.
https://www.ruralnewsgroup.co.nz/dairy-news/dairy-machinery-products/is…
HT - perhaps read the link I put up, upthread?
I find chosen ignorance (it happens when people choose NOT to read stuff) tends to lead to things like inbuilt prejudice. My guess is that you are trying to warn of a 'command economy', by associating the products of Eastern Europe with inferior performance, correct? And by association, dissing other than laissez-faire society. Would that be a fair appraisal?
Actually, Russians rebelled against arrogant repression, as did the French a century earlier. They reached flash-point. The problem with most such moments is that there is a power vacuum, typically filled by those least likely to champion the flash-point crowd. Animal Farm states it perfectly. And the tyrant's need to permanently repress, rigidifies the systems they rule. Simply, the worker's aim becomes survival, not turning out a quality product.
Don't confuse that societal form, with the problem facing humankind at this moment in our irruption's history. Laissez faire allowed everyone who could, to do as much consuming as they could, as fast as they could. Unsurprisingly, we did this until we hit the ceiling (there was always going to be a ceiling somewhere; this is a species we're talking about; ecology applies, as do physics, chemistry and biology (they all overlap). So now we have to curtail the irruption, or die off. Indeed, some of us think we're past the point where feed-back-loops trigger, and that the die-off will happen anyway.
In light of that, control/curtailment is the only valid leadership option. I find it interesting that when you start with one false premise (that your house and vehicle are built of technology, and your tank is filled with it too - did I get that right?) you end up having to try and fit others around your narrative. You end up having to deny that ecology is even a thing; you end up having to deny Limits, in the end (like mainstream economics, as taught and as reported endlessly) you have to deny physics. And to not be found incorrect, you have to strenuously avoid learning anything which would upset the construct.
Interesting, eh? I was well aware we were headed for interesting times; I was unaware how interesting the reactions to the interesting times would be.
Now with the Ford. F150
EVs are priced higher than normal vehicles.
https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/cars/ford/f150/listing/2987513597
Price is $149,800.00. This is the 3 litre diesel.
Or
https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/cars/ford/f150/listing/2973249052
Price $239,800.00. This the go-fast version. AUTOMATIC (10 SPEED) 5.0L V8 WHIPPLE SUPERCHARGED (755hp).
Two great YouTube from Engineering Explained.
Energy density is a big problem.
https://youtu.be/Hatav_Rdnno
- how do you charge the car it you only have street parking?
And
https://youtu.be/oJL9MasBFvM
- range limits for EVs
- why large trucks, semi, don't yet work.
There is a precedent:
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/03/the-electric-tax…
"When a cab drove into the station, technicians secured and centered it with hydraulic shoes. They then hitched the 1,300-pound battery tray, which ran underneath the cab, to a hydraulic piston that pulled out the whole thing and sat it on a table, where "an overhead crane plucked it from the table and deposited it in the charging room." They slotted in a new battery and off the cab went again into the wild Manhattan streets."
The other precedent (as per Formula E) is to have an entire second car. Maybe we are going back to the wild west days of the Pony Express. Change stations every x km where you just jump into a new fully charged car.
But seriously, it is looking a bit pointless. The issue is the sheer volume of cars and related infrastructure. Changing the power source of the car wont fix much. It is akin to swapping the engine on the titanic for a sparkly new Electric one moments before the inevitable.
In Japan only 25% of their electricity is generated by Hydro and other renewable energy sources, so EVs are a very poor choice for them as they will have to burn fossil fuel to produce electricity to then charge the car battery. Rather like DOC using a diesel generator to charge up their PHEV on Stewart island (commendable enthusiasim, but daft). All up less efficient and far more CO2 producing (coal fired power stations) than just burning Petrol in a normal efficient ICE car.
Hybrids are in the order of 50% more efficient than nomal ICE cars, so Hybrids are by far the least poluting option at the moment untill we can crank up a much larger supply of renewable energy. (Where are the plans to quickly crank up renewable power generation. That is far more importantand it is the horse that must precede the cart.) The Japanese know this however and the head of Toyota has made statements to this effect. Accordingly I would not expect the Japanese to purchase a lot of EVs so, do not expect large numbers of used import EVs to be available.
Looking at the rest of the world, 88% of it's power is generated by fosill fuels and the bulk of that from coal, so wholesale switching to EVs right now would be an absolute disaster for the environment.
My ideal vehical would be to see if a mash up between the Toyota aitkinson cycle and the Mazda compression/spark ignition motors could be made to run on natural gas. Then use this in a PHEV car that only could be charged when surplas renewable energy was available.
That's why the Leaf, although garbage when it comes to battery tech (and arguably looks), had one major advantage to it - it was an early promoted of V2G. You could have, in theory, used your Leaf to power your home. Of course this would have added wear on an already rubbish battery, but the initial idea was that the car could charge itself when power was cheap and then give a little bit back to your home when it wasn't. It never really took off here, although I think some places were charging about $20K for the option - but for that you could have bought a huge solar setup + stationary battery and charged your EV AND run your home for the same money.
Yes that is right. Vector had some trials of that. Home lithium batteries at the moment on their own make no sense to me because the value of the energy you store and use over its life will never pay for the capital cost. However the use of the battery in the car is a different proposition as you are comparing it to inefficient use of fossil fuel in a car. Perhaps these new Panasonic/Toyota solid state batteries will improve the ecomics
Chris M - great posts.
My guess is that the grids of this world will attempt to transition to renewables, and stop the attempt some way along the track. The reason for that curtailment is in the link I put up, upthread (surplus energy economics). A that point, EV's make little sense, and in any event, in an energy-curtailed world lugging a ton of car with you to short-haul move (adding to your health problems no doubt) makes no sense. Look to disruptive technologies; e-bikes, e-scooters, and I'm guessing we'll see e-small-motorcycle and e-wheelbarrow/e-shopping cart crossovers.
Too many change their thinking too slowly (which is why advanced-styled ot advanced-tech cars never sell) so we're still in our 'car' mindset. When we realise that energy is money, and that it is getting harder to access, expect a phase-change - as long as the trading system stays intact!
Bikes will work until the rubber perishes, feet do fairly well too; no parking problems with either.....
Some hybids use CVTs but Toyota use a continuous mesh epicyclic transmission, where both electric and IC engine are continuously engaged. A subtle and brilliant arrangement that in principle is very robust and if enginered adequately should be very good for towing. I haven't checked but I imagine that the new RAV should be fine for towing. Note that I think later this year a hybrid HILux may be released. I cant imagine that it will not have good towing capacity. Toyota being very risk averse.
CVTs, well the earlier ones were a bit fragile and not recomended for towing, but things have moved well past. Look at some of the big beasts that Nissan are making. Even the current Hilux uses a CVT.
"By 2035, 46% of all light vehicle travel could be in EVs..."
I'd love to see the calculations behind this forecast. The average age of a car in New Zealand is about 14 years old so for this to occur pretty much every vehicle sold to 2035 would need to be an EV to hit that target.
My daughter asked me about getting an EV which would suit her well but she parks on the street, there's no way she could charge the thing overnight. Except for charging stations we don't have the infrastructure. You go to Europe and they are installing plugs on every urban street light to make the transition possible.
In this thread on Reddit they are talking about outdoor charging, even on-street charging.
https://www.reddit.com/r/newzealand/comments/nz5jwb/question_for_ev_own…
There are lots of opportunities to charge a car - it spends most of its life sitting still somewhere e.g. home, work, supermarkets, malls, when you are out on town. As EV numbers increase, so will chargers and they will be in places that cars go. Worst case, you spend 20 mins a week at a fast charger and you still pay less than petrol.
When I used to work in Sweden in the 90s, every work car park had a plug to it so you could plug your car in to keep the heater running so it would not freeze over by the time you had to go home. It is not hard to setup this kind of infrastructure and add a smart layer for billing if required.
A prediction. There'll be more money made in tax for at least three years than handed out in rebates. %10-20% more, provided Labour are still in. Could even go out to five years if Labour can hold on. I've noted the price of the Nissan Leaf Entry model for future reference.
No it doesn't. Don't get dishearted.
Saving the the planet by reducing CO2 is good and the only choice we have. But we need to know the full impact of what we are doing, the unintended consequences and choose wisely and with sound analysis to base our decisions, rather than charging arround like headless chooks.
One thing in EVs favour is their sheer performance! For example, the new Ford Ute does 0-100 in 4 secs. A lot of diehard petrol heads will be unable to resist that. The fun factor and cheap running costs could well mean a new motoring boom, for those who can afford to buy one. I’m certainly going to take advantage of my $8000 free gift from that very nice Mr Shaw.
The devil is in the detail.
Firstly you won't be getting a $8000 free gift for a high performance EV (or any electric ute for that matter) because in NZ they won't cost less than $80 000.
And secondly you'll now be paying roughly $16 000 in RUC over the life of the EV.
So all of a sudden a $8000 gift has turned into a $16000 "fee" ...
Our PM is complete muppet!
Toyota New Zealand says it's "disappointed in misinformation" after Ardern suggested it's in discussions to bring an electric version of its famous utes here.
"Within the next - we're hoping the next 12 to 24 months - the likes of Toyota are talking about bringing in EV utes. My hope is then people might delay their purchase in order to start building the market," she told The AM Show on Monday.
But Toyota New Zealand put out a statement saying it isn't true.
"I'd like to reiterate that we do not have any plans for a battery electric Hilux in our line-up in the next 18-24 months," says Toyota New Zealand's CEO Neeraj Lala.
"It is irresponsible to suggest that customers stop buying non-electric vehicles immediately until there is an electric option available. The range and volumes of EV's needed to meet demand is simply not available."
Out of all the major car manufacturers, Toyota are the most backward when it comes to EVs. They have too much invested into hybrids and fuel cells. They are also full of BS marketing like "self-charging hybrids" and "electrified" vehicles. They sold 3,300 EVs in 2020 compared to 500,000 by Tesla and 220,000 by VW.
So don't expect an electric Hilux any time soon. Chinese electric utes will be here late this year and early next year.
I'm all for improving the environment but all these numbers are just guess's !
I would love to see the maths behind all this or maybe no calculations have been done ?
Like how many charging stations would we need to support say 50% penetration of our fleet to Evs ?
How much does the Power generation and distribution grid need to grow to support this ?
What type of expanded power Generation are we going to use ? More Hydro and stuff up more rivers ? more thermal, Gas, Wind, Solar, Coal, Nuclear, tides ??????
To me all the numbers are no more than rubbish from our Government like the 100,000 Kiwibuilds, the billion trees !!!!!!!
Pietro - The Jones boy had the same trouble as Ardern, good at telling porky's.
I'm involved in Forestry investment and what they did, as opposed to what they said they won't do, is counted the private sector plant numbers.
Their target was 100 mil trees a year, private sector already plant approx 50 mil trees a year, unfortunately these 50 mil trees were included in their bullshit numbers.
What was really unfortunate was the 50 mil private sector plants are on average 80% re-plants so the figures were ..... Porkies nothing but Porkies......
Shore man
Point taken. I am opposed to hydro as it turns things of natural beauty into concrete eyesores. If I was involved in policy planning, I would do as little harm as possible, balancing our climate obligations with the greater good for the greatest number [utilitarianism] until viable safe nuclear options are available, as they will be. The EV feebate and the $1 billion for yuppie cyclists would be better spent on subsiding LED lighting (that cut my power bill drastically), home solar, heat pumps, ultra efficient insulation, encouraging biofuel crops, converting existing waste to diesel, carbon capture for coal. It is folly to think that people want to live in tiny apartments, become vegan, and never enjoy the pleasure of driving and travel. Gosh, millennials will probably want to travel to infinity and beyond! The amount of available energy is vast. Common sense is all we need, not ideologically driven dogma.
Pietro - "until viable safe nuclear options are available, as they will be."
That is not only self-justification, it defies logic, vis-a-vis your next sentences. What do you think nuclear energy produces?
Electricity. Period. You cannae put it in a tank at the gas station. To keep on motoring, you'd still have to electrify the fleet.
cart, horse maybe?
It is rubbish - but from us. That's is OUR narrative they're peddling, and it was an incorrect one.
Your points are valid - there's a hydro lecture today, I'll link to it when/if the recording is put up or I'll report back - covering just that stuff. We can expect less glacier-storage, but maybe that means more winter rain. We need to talk storage - water at height is the most benign and easiest maintained, but how much?
Actually, here it is: https://www.otago.ac.nz/news/events/otago829218.html
Nobody is getting their heads around the fact that this is a phase-change and BAU isn't a given. Probably by some orders of magnitude.
The details are all in the Climate Commission report. Charging stations: need to continue installation as fleet expands, eventually to be in many petrol stations and large car parks as has already started. Power: Sorted for the next 10 years, longer term we will need to continue to build wind and solar farms at the present rate.
The current monthly emissions of the Huntly power station burning coal 250000 T of coal are roughly equivalent to the monthly emissions of the entire active NZ private vehicle fleet. We need a massive energy use reduction campaign focused on Auckland (where the majority of Huntly power is consumed). The financial effects on the Gentailer shareholders should not be of concern. Do we care about emissions or not?
We do care, but the Huntly situation is short term and will be fixed in the next year or two from new power stations now under construction, while the vehicle CO2 is longer term and much harder to reduce. The Huntly coal thing has really captured people's attention though and illustrates how a little forward thinking 4 or 5 years ago would have avoided this problem.
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21st Jun 21, 7:19am
by David Chaston
Here's our summary of key economic events over the weekend that affect New Zealand with news there are new or renewed threats to the global recovery emerging.
But first in China, reports are filtering out that Beijing is detaining and arresting analysts who report on crop yields. This sort of work is very hard to do unless you tour and observe crop regions first hand (which is how it is done is most countries). But independent reports have been snuffed out in China over the past few weeks. It does raise the question about why Beijing needs to be so heavy handed on this arcane, technical corner of market assessments.
China is looking to grow its passenger car market by +10% this year. And a key part of that is an expected nearly +50% surge in sales of new energy vehicles. This rise would put them on track to sell a quarter of all cars as NEVs by 2025. Lithium mining is set for an even bigger boost if this transpires and lithium mining is an especially dirty process at present. If SRI funds aim to avoid polluters, why should they think battery cars are 'green'? At present, Australia is the top lithium miner and China's NEV drive will benefit them most. Although most of the known lithium reserves are in South America.
Despite its drive to control commodity prices, China is still not getting iron ore or coal prices down. Threats against 'speculators' are growing, but so far it seems this latest rise is more a reaction to regulators limiting supply.
As we have reported previously, Australia is challenging the Chinese tariffs on barley aimed at it. Now Australia is doing the same at the WTO against the Chinese for the tariffs the middle kingdom has applied against it for its wine exports. Neither action will be resolved soon and if the decisions go against China they will almost certainly appeal, stringing out the 'illegal' tariffs. But Australia's action won't be impressing Beijing as it ramps up its efforts to stand up to them. Beijing isn't used to being challenged.
They are also annoyed at Japan who have started an action against Chinese tariffs on stainless steel products.
In Australia, an influential economist now says their official cash rate will start rising in 2023.
Separately in Australia, their largest home loan lender has told brokers that they will assess borrowers on the basis of a 6.77% mortgage rate. This is now well above the assessment floors of the other major banks in Australia where ANZ is at 5.1%, Westpac 5.05% and NAB 4.95%. (We have an update of New Zealand serviceability test levels here.)
In Germany, producer prices are zooming higher, with input prices up +7.2% in May from the same month a year ago. That is their steepest annual rise in 13 years.
In virus news, the Delta variant (B.1.617.2) that first emerged in India, is now in a serious surge in Russia and parts of Europe, especially in the UK where it is well established. A key concern is its ease and speed of transmission. This is the strain raging in Fiji now and the one causing concern in Sydney. It is also causing concern in the US.
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In the US, a key Federal Reserve official said that he sees the first rate hike by the American central bank coming as early as 2022. This is way earlier than the recent indications from the Fed's own meeting dot-plot. Some people like the new shift. But it is a view that unnerved Wall Street, delivering an almost -1% retreat. Oddly, bond markets reacted by driving down yields, an unexpected shift.
Along the US-Canada border, there are two events to report that affect trade. First, the Americans are unhappy the Canadian government is keeping the border closed to people movements based on the pandemic risks. But perhaps more importantly, the Lake Ontario/St Lawrence Waterway levels are now so low they are affecting shipping in one of the world's busiest waterways. This is adding to supply-chain difficulties and adding to shipping costs with echoes internationally.
Canadians took out almost C$18 bln worth of new mortgage debt in April, the fastest monthly increase on record and enough to bring their total housing debt to almost C$2 tln and a +7.8% annual rise. (In Australia, and economy just slightly smaller than Canada, total housing debt exceeds AU$1.8 tln, and it is rising at about +6% pa.)
The UST 10yr yield starts today down -1 bp at 1.44% and giving up all of its gains since mid-June. The US 2-10 rate curve is holding at +119 bps. Their 1-5 curve is also unchanged at +80 bps, while their 3m-10 year curve is still at +140 bps. The Australian Govt ten year benchmark rate starts today at 1.51% and down another -2 bps. The China Govt ten year bond is still at 3.15%. And the New Zealand Govt ten year is now at 1.80% and unchanged at its higher level.
The price of gold starts at US$1764 which is down another -US$4 from this time Saturday.
Oil prices are a little softer at just over US$71/bbl in the US, while the international Brent price is just over US$72.50/bbl. The slow pick-up in drilling rigs in operation accelerated last week. In North America, there are now 300 more operating than this time last year, so they have now more than doubled in that time and are back to year-ago levels.
The Kiwi dollar opens today at 69.3 USc and starts this week a full -2c lower than this time last week, its lowest since November 2020. It is really all about a surging greenback. Against the Australian dollar we are little-changed at 92.7 AUc. Against the euro we are unchanged at 58.5 euro cents. That means our TWI-5 starts today at just 72 and a six month low.
The bitcoin price is now at US$34,555 and down another -3.0% from this time Saturday and -11% lower than this time last week. Volatility in the past 24 hours has been very high at +/- 4.2%.
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by richard1965 | 21st Jun 21, 7:47am
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Congratulation to Jacinda Arden and Mr Orr for making NZ on top of the list for Housing Bubble in the world :
https://www.domain.com.au/news/these-are-the-biggest-housing-bubbles-in-...
And this lady's main election promise was to solve housing crisis.
Power corrupts.
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by Tom Joad | 21st Jun 21, 8:09am
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With the pandemic turning off the immigration tap for over a year where is the demand side being driven from?
Is it still not clear that this is all about supply of credit into residential housing? Turn that tap back and you will start to fix the problem - though the squealing of the banks and all other cheerleaders will be deafening.
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by Ezy | 21st Jun 21, 8:34am
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For many developed countries, the price ratios are now higher than they were before the financial crisis
Evidence that everything that led to 2008 has been amplified rather than fixed.
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by rastus | 21st Jun 21, 8:39am
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MSM waking up? About 10 years too late...
https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/national/it-s-about-time-new-zealand-revi...
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by Audaxes | 21st Jun 21, 8:12am
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Beijing isn't used to being challenged.
Hmmmm,,, - The US’s greatest danger isn’t China. It’s much closer to home
The greatest danger we face today is not coming from China. It is our drift toward proto-fascism. We must be careful not to demonize China so much that we encourage a new paranoia that further distorts our priorities, encourages nativism and xenophobia, and leads to larger military outlays rather than public investments in education, infrastructure, and basic research on which America’s future prosperity and security critically depend.
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by murray86 | 21st Jun 21, 9:28am
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Too late? A common tool of Governments to distract their populations from internal issues (seizures of power) is to create an external threat. The US has been doing it since the 50's, it is clear the CCP is doing it, Russia does it - nothing changes. It is how a powered elite hold onto their power. The trick for populations and media is to recognise the problem, call it for what it is, and use elections to hold Governments to account. Not as easy as it sounds!
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by mikekirk29 | 21st Jun 21, 8:18am
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China last week on here reported 3-4 times annual increase in sorghum and corn imports. I smell a rat
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by powerdownkiwi | 21st Jun 21, 8:48am
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https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3122680/chinas-food-s...
https://www.futuredirections.org.au/publication/china-struggles-with-foo...
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/chinas-food-insecurity-and-supernatural-...
This is a problem that isn't going away: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/only-60-years-of-farming-left...
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by rastus | 21st Jun 21, 9:32am
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Whoever created the video simulation of the Three Gorges Dam collapsing in link three will be on their way to a re-education camp. Crazy scary stuff.
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by mikekirk29 | 21st Jun 21, 8:22am
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Build to rent
Safe haven
Etc
Take a look at first quarter of Mauldin article
Perhaps this explains partially how demand exploded without immigration, apart from leverage and QE of course
https://ggc-mauldin-images.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/pdf/TFTF_Jun_19_2021...
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by rastus | 21st Jun 21, 8:43am
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"China looking to grow its passenger car market" That seems a short sighted thing to do. Modernising itself by going backwards.
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by Noncents | 21st Jun 21, 8:47am
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"China is looking to grow its passenger car market by +10% this year. And a key part of that is an expected nearly +50% surge in sales of new energy vehicles."
I am guessing that their 50% of 10% growth is still 2-3 times more than the entire combined fleet of NZ.
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by jimmyH | 21st Jun 21, 9:34am
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When they have bargain priced popular EV like Hong Guang Mini EV,at $6500 NZ equivalent pricing, and those selling at 40000 units a month,maybe they can get to 50% new sales . Actually..if our rebate is $8500 on a new EV , why cant we land 10000 of them here? Getting paid to own one,at that price....rebate being 2k higher than the chinese locals purchase price...
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