The Greens are giving a big thumbs down to the Government's new electric cars policy.

Among the measures proposed are for Road User Charges exemptions to be continued for light vehicles and introduced for heavy vehicles, and allowances made for electric vehicles to use bus lanes and high occupancy lanes in urban centres.

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Green MP Julie-Anne Genter is calling the announcement disappointing and lacking new tax breaks to make it easier for Kiwis to afford electric vehicles.

"And what's even worse is it's actually going to make public transport services much less efficient and contribute to congestion in our biggest cities."

Ms Genter doesn't believe the proposals will see more people use electric cars.

"They're going to continue the holiday from road user charges, but so far that hasn't resulted in much uptake of electric vehicles. If you want to make it easier for more people to purchase electric vehicles, a tax break at the point of purchase would be the way to do it."

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The Electricity Network Association wants to hear more about the infrastructure planned for electric cars.

Chief Executive of the Association Graeme Peters said 40 charging stations across the country have been installed, with plans to install another 100 over the next 12 months.

"We'd like more detail on what the Government's proposing around facilitating the roll out of charging stations. If the Government is talking about providing an incentive, or getting behind that, we'd like to talk to them about how that's going to happen."

Mr Peters said to deal with the increase many more charging stations will need to be rolled out across the country.

But, he said, charging can actually be easier than this.

"85 per cent of people have the ability to charge a car where they live so people will actually have the ability to charge their cars at home and the public charging infrastructure will be just for when they go out, if they need it."

AA principle advisor Mark Stockdale said New Zealanders are concerned about climate change and fuel costs.

"The beauty is an electric vehicles can solve both of those problems, so that will simply reinforce the car as the future of transport in New Zealand."

But Mr Stockdale said because electric cars are such a new technology there's a lack of information about them.

He said launching an education campaign is a very good idea.

"Clearly there's a lot more that needs to be done to actually inform the public about what electric cars are, how they can do what you can expect a car to do, but they're also different."

Meanwhile, electric car chargers appear to be getting use in Auckland.

Vector has 12 chargers installed around the region.

Auckland's busiest station this week was in Newmarket where 86 charges were made.

The charge station on Hobson Street was the second busiest, with 75 charges.

A further 15 rapid chargers will be installed from Warkworth to Takanini before the end of the year.