There's significant interest in New Zealand's first electric ute.

Car manufacturer LDV will be selling the vehicle.

It comes at a cost of just under $80,000 but will qualify for clean car rebate of nearly $9000.

LDV General Manager Andrew Bayliss told Heather du Plessis-Allan he's never experienced interest of this demand.

“We’ve got a vehicle that, to be fair, people have been waiting for for a long time. When most EVs on the market are just cars, we’ve now got an EV ute.”

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