Martin TraceyTRACEY MARTIN (NZ First): Kia ora Mr Speaker. I rise on behalf of my colleague Fletcher Tabuteau to speak on the Energy Innovation (Electric Vehicles and Other Matters) Amendment Bill. I agree with my colleague Gareth Hughes that there is nothing innovative about this bill. Can I just ask—hands up all those inside the House who own an electric vehicle.Hon Member: Oh look at all those hands!TRACEY MARTIN: Oh my goodness. Put hands down now—hands down now. Hands up all those who own an electric vehicle under $20000. Right. Hands up all those who were on the select committee who own an electric vehicle. Oh nobody. Righty-o.Hon Jacqui Dean: Showing off Tracey.TRACEY MARTIN: And where it is going Ms Dean—let us get real about the changes inside this bill. The opportunity to travel in a bus lane which this bill does not actually do—what it does is it gives the council an opportunity to have an argument with the owners of electric vehicles about their ability to travel in bus lanes. That is the first thing. And it will have to be repealed or phased out within a 5-year period based upon the numbers of electric vehicles (EVs) that are coming.So ultimately it is completely useless. Ultimately it is completely useless. What electric-vehicle owners actually want is more charging stations. The biggest barriers to people buying electric vehicles are (1) access to second-hand vehicles so they are under $20000 and (2) distance anxiety—it means: Can I get from there to there and can I recharge my vehicle to go from there to there?".The North is quite well served and thank you Vector and Chargenet.co.nz—thank you very much. But if you go south from Auckland you cannot go very far. There are no bus lanes in rural New Zealand and rural New Zealand cannot participate and cannot take advantage of the lower cost of running an electric vehicle because the ability to charge it up and the amount that it costs to charge up your vehicle are so much less than a petrol-driven vehicle. A bus lane will make no difference to anybody in Northland but Northland has got the most charging stations. But Northland also has some of our most poor inside New Zealand.What did this Government decide to do in this bill that regards energy innovation electric vehicles and other matters? It decided to let urban dwellers drive in a bus lane only if their council or regulatory body decides that they can do so and it is not going to do so. Auckland has already indicated that it is highly unlikely that it is going to allow electric vehicles in the bus lanes. Ultimately the Government has done nothing. Ultimately with regard to electric vehicles the Government has done nothing. It has extended the lack of registration or whatever that fee is for heavier electric vehicles but for current and future electric-vehicle owners this does nothing.Let us get real. New Zealand First will support the bill because there are other bits and pieces inside of it that are better than nothing but this is not a bill for electric vehicles. There is absolutely no mention—no innovation—with regard to say Tesla solar roofing tiles. There is no capacity to expand inside of that industry or whatever. There is no capacity to expand the charging network because the Government will support it to happen. There is no capacity to expand and encourage people to purchase electric vehicles. There is no capacity to actually say: "What are we going to do with the electric vehicle batteries once they"—and I will use a bit of EV speak—"get down to 10 bar or 5 bar?". What that means is the recharging capacity of the battery that is underneath the car.In other nations they can take it off and place it on the wall of their wash house or whatever and they can use solar power to recharge that battery at lower capacity and then run their houses. Where is that innovation? It does not exist inside this bill and it obviously does not exist inside this Government. So again on behalf of my colleague Fletcher Tabuteau I take a call to say that New Zealand First will support the bill because it is better than nothing. But the word "innovation" should be removed from the title and probably when we get to the select committee we might just suggest that. And also somewhere along the line "electric vehicles" should probably be removed—Hon Simon Bridges: I think you'll find it's been to select committee.TRACEY MARTIN: —from the title because it does nothing Mr Bridges. It does nothing. It is another piece of spin by the Government to suggest to the New Zealand public that it has actually taken this issue seriously. It has not done a thing.I am not going to go any further. I think I have made my point perfectly clear. We will support the bill because there are bits and pieces that actually make a slight difference with regard to the secondary networks but with regard to electric vehicles let us not kid ourselves and try to kid the New Zealand public. There is nothing in this bill."