Acquisition	Manual — entered by hand from the published source
Vehicle scope	All new light registrations (GVM < 3,500 kg) — passenger cars and light commercials combined.
HEV (full hybrids)	split into its own column
Auth	none

Variants

Each variant is its own series with its own CSV. Not every variant is charted in the gallery — the CSV is the authoritative record either way.

Variant	What it counts	Held	Raw data
Whole	All new light-vehicle registrations, GVM under 3,500 kg — cars and light commercials combined.	2012-01 – 2026-07 175 rows	`data/New Zealand.csv`

History we hold

Every bar is the span actually present in our stored CSV — breaks in a bar are real gaps in the series, not rendering. Cadence is shown on the right.

Whole 2012-01–2026-07 (175 rows).

Which fuel columns this source fills

A blank column almost never means "no such cars" — it means this source does not split them out, and those vehicles are counted inside another column. Check the caveats for where they land.

	BEV	PHEV	HEV	PETROL	DIESEL	OTHERS
Whole	reported	reported	reported	reported	reported	reported

reported column exists but is zero in every row not reported by this source. Hover a cell for the row count.

Caveats

Automated fetching has been switched off since 2026-06 — both upstream endpoints now sit behind Imperva anti-bot. Months are read off the published dashboard and entered by hand.
Cars and light commercials are not separated by this source.
Flexfuel is not reported; OTHERS (LPG etc.) is typically 0 in recent months.
The whole series before automation was compiled by Prof. Ray Willis.