The Kiwimetre Tag makes RUC compliance easy and effortless: without location-based tracking.
Pick
On the shelf at your local supermarket.
Place
Install in less than a minute, anywhere in your car.
Pair
Connect it to your phone, and forget about it.
One
FED is being removed
Tax included in fuel will be removed, reducing fuel prices by 70c per litre.
Two
RUC is replacing it
A universal charge of ~7.6c per kilometre will be introduced for everyone, not just diesel and electric vehicles.
Three
RUC providers
Private companies will record vehicle distance automatically, creating an effortless, invisible system.
As the new tax system is based on distance travelled by the car, monitoring the car odometer will become mandatory.
Distance logging becomes mandatory
Holstegge Technologies believes privacy is essential to a fair and accessible Road User Charges system. Providers should limit themselves to solutions that do not track location, and work to maximise the value they bring to customers within the confines of that constraint.
No location signal
The hardware cannot read location.
No cellular signal
The hardware cannot triangulate location.
Your phone signal
The hardware cannot communicate without your phone.
A successful RUC system means building solutions which every New Zealander trusts, and will accept.
Holstegge Technologies intends to support companies in providing RUC in their apps, using our platform and hardware. Through partnerships, we believe our design can reach as many customers as possible and deliver a solution we advocate.
Bank app
Fuel app
Mobile app
Insurance app
Rewards app
Parking app
Supermarket app
Services app
Your app
Talk to us about your business.
Our app
Or keep it simple with ours.
Learn about people, or talk about business.
Proof of concept, legislation pending.