2. Question No. 2—Energy and ResourcesTANGI UTIKERE (Labour—Palmerston North) to the Minister of Energy and ResourcesQuestion No. 2—Energy and Resources2. TANGI UTIKERE (Labour—Palmerston North) to the Minister of Energy and Resources: What recent announcements has she made about the Low Emission Vehicles Contestable Fund?Hon Dr MEGAN WOODS (Minister of Energy and Resources): Yesterday I was at the Johnsonville Waitohi community centre to announce the projects the Government is supporting through the ninth round of the Low Emission Vehicles Contestable Fund. The fund will contribute $3.7 million to projects with the 22 recipients contributing a total of $9.4 million. Projects include a community electric bike and car-share scheme additional electric vehicle (EV) charging stations as well as five hydrogen trucks and a demonstration electric truck. We are getting on with the work needed to electrify our vehicle fleet and this fund will continue to support innovative projects that help clean up our transport system.Tangi Utikere: How has the Low Emission Vehicles Contestable Fund supported low-emissions vehicles to date?Hon Dr MEGAN WOODS: We recognise that innovative solutions and investments in our charging infrastructure are of utmost importance if we are to scale up the electrification of our transport fleet. For example in this round the Ōtautahi Community Housing Trust has received funding to secure e-bike storage for a community bike share for its tenants and two second-hand Nissan LEAFs for a community car-share scheme. Hyundai will receive almost $500000 of funding in this round for demonstrating and proving the potential of hydrogen-powered trucks. Through the life of the fund we have co-funded 600 public EV chargers through the Low Emission Vehicles Contestable Fund across the country which has helped meet our goal of having EV charging stations for 95 percent of every 75 kilometres of State highway.Tangi Utikere: How do these projects support New Zealand meeting our climate change goals?Hon Dr MEGAN WOODS: The Climate Change Commission's recently released draft report rightly points out that reducing transport emissions is integral to meeting our climate change goals. In particular demonstrating and providing potential for electric and hydrogen heavy vehicles is important as heavy freight has an outside impact on transport emissions. The spread of projects as announced yesterday shows the numbers of opportunities present within the transport sector to reduce emissions and we are committed to investing in our transition to a transport fleet to run on renewable electricity.Barbara Kuriger: Does the Minister expect the fund to do better than the Government's progress given that just 108 electric vehicles for its own fleet out of 15000 meant by 2025 have been delivered?Hon Dr MEGAN WOODS: The purpose of this fund is to make sure that we have the infrastructure for the electrification of our fleet. One of the things that I can point the member to is the fact that we do now have in 95 percent of our State highway network a charge infrastructure every 75 kilometres. We need to continue to make progress on the electrification of the fleet and that does include the Government.