Mercury to spend $6m expanding EV service

Staff reporters
Wed, 16 Dec 2020

Mercury NZ will invest $6 million to boost its electric vehicle subscription fleet to about 450 cars.The firm has offered 60 EVs for $399 a month in Auckland for the past two years and said demand outstrips supply. It now plans to add another 50 vehicles a month to profit from a growing trend in favour of EVs and away from car ownership more generally.“We’re ready to deliver on a bigger scale,” said Julia Jack, Mercury’s chief marketing officer.“Both here and globally we’re seeing more people seriously consid...

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