For New Zealand dealers
Electric Dreams is a marketplace built specifically for electric vehicles, ebikes, and home electrification — made in New Zealand for Kiwi buyers and sellers. We’re inviting NZ dealers to join as foundation partners — free, with founding-member benefits locked in for the long term.
No contract. No commitment. Cancel anytime.
The audience
Visitors aren’t comparing an EV against a Hilux. They’re already convinced about electrification and figuring out what to do about it — the car, the charger, the solar, the battery, the ebike.
That means every visitor to your listing is a high-intent EV buyer. Not a tyre-kicker, not a price-comparer against petrol. Someone who’s past the “should I” stage and into the “which one” stage.
Our built-in running-cost calculator lets buyers plug in their own power price and weekly kilometres, then see exactly what they’d save against an equivalent petrol car — RUC included. The financial case gets made on the listing itself, before they enquire.
And the same buyer comes back when they’re shopping for chargers, solar, batteries, or ebikes. Your listing stays in front of them across their whole electrification journey, not just the day they’re car-shopping.
What you get
List everything in your inventory. No per-listing fees. No cap. While private sellers are capped at 5 active listings, verified dealers list without limit.
Real ratings from real buyers after real transactions, tied to a tier system (newcomer → established → trusted → expert → legend). Your reputation compounds across every sale. Worth more than any badge a marketplace can hand out.
Built into every EV listing. Buyers enter their own power price and weekly kilometres, see their real fuel-and-RUC savings versus an equivalent petrol car, and arrive at your listing with the financial case already made.
EV buyers don't just buy cars — they buy chargers, solar, batteries, and ebikes. Electric Dreams is built around that journey, with ebikes and home electrification categories live today and more tools to support the full electrification decision coming over time. Your dealership stays in front of buyers across the categories that matter to them.
See it in action
The model
Most marketplaces charge dealers per listing or a monthly subscription — their revenue is your ad spend. Electric Dreams is built the other way around.
Listing EVs, e-bikes and home electrification is free for foundation partners — and low-cost by design beyond that, because the model isn't built on dealer fees.
The model puts the cost on the wider electric journey — advertising and referrals to solar, power-plan and home-electrification vendors buyers are already heading toward — rather than on the dealers listing stock.
Because your listings aren't our revenue line, reaching high-intent EV buyers here costs less than a per-listing marketplace — and it doesn't climb as your inventory grows.
Your inventory grows. Your cost to advertise it here doesn’t.
Foundation partner pricing
Free
while we build the platform.
We’re prioritising a small group of NZ dealers as foundation partners during this initial phase. No listing fees, no monthly fees, unlimited inventory, full verified-dealer features.
When we introduce paid tiers in future, foundation partners get locked-in founding pricing — a thank-you for backing us early.
FAQ
TradeMe is a general marketplace where EVs sit alongside tens of thousands of petrol cars. Electric Dreams is built for one audience: people who've already decided to go electric. Smaller pool, dramatically higher intent.
We're early-stage and we're upfront about that. Our dealer outreach this quarter is paired with parallel work to drive EV-curious Kiwis to the platform through community, content, and SEO.
Same as anywhere else — relist, edit the price, no penalty. No fees either way.
Yes. No contract, no commitment, no cancellation fees. You own your inventory and your data.
We do, manually. You submit your NZBN and we check it against the public business register. Usually takes one working day.
Quick. You'll create a free Electric Dreams account first, then fill in your dealer profile — business name, NZBN, a short bio, your logo. We verify your NZBN against the public business register manually, usually within one working day. Once you're verified, you can start listing.
You can list manually today through your dealer dashboard. Inventory-feed integrations to sync stock from your existing DMS are something we're actively exploring — if that matters to you, tell us during signup and we'll keep you posted on what we build.
We’re talking to dealers across New Zealand right now. If your dealership sells EVs, ebikes, or both, we’d love you to be part of building this.
Or get in touch directly: hamish@electricdreams.co.nz
