The Netherlands may ban the sale of non-electric transport by 2025

The Lower House of the Parliament of the Netherlands supported the proposal of the Labor Party (PvdA) to accelerate the refusal of cars burning fossil fuels. The Labor Party proposes, by 2025, to ban the sale in the country of new cars that run on gasoline or diesel. It is unclear whether the draft law prohibits cars running on hydrogen fuel cells.

If this proposal turns into law, then in less than 10 years in the Netherlands it will be impossible to buy a new car with an internal combustion engine. And if the model you need, for example, a commercial vehicle, is not available in the form of an electric car, you will have to be content with used cars, or buy them somewhere else.

Not everyone agrees with the proposal of the Social Democrats. For example, their coalition partners from the right-liberal “People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy” believe that this plan is too ambitious and unrealistic, and they expect a maximum of 15% of the market to be occupied by electric vehicles.
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The plan for the Zero-Emission Vehicle ( Zero Emission Vehicle , ZEV) alliance, which was created last year in Paris, seems more realistic. Eight US states and five European countries (including the Netherlands) expect that all passenger transport will become electric by 2050.


Sales of electric cars in the Netherlands

In 2015, 43,000 electric vehicles were sold in the Netherlands, which accounted for just under 10% of total vehicle sales.

An increasing number of countries feed the hope of reducing harmful emissions from transport and switching to electric vehicles. By 2030, India also plans to fully switch to electric transport.

True, experts point out that in the pursuit of reducing emissions in the transition to electric vehicles there is no point - as long as the electricity that feeds these cars is produced with environmental pollution (for example, through the burning of coal, gas, fuel oil). And if you take into account the cost of producing the car itself, especially the batteries, and ask questions about their disposal, the picture ceases to be rosy .