The Netherlands Will Ban New Gasoline-Powered Vehicles By 2025

[KamaAina]

http://www.fastcoexist.com/3058649/the-netherlands-will-ban-new-gasoline-powered-vehicles-by-2025

We're used to radical transportation policies in the Netherlands, but this goes a step further than most anything we've seen: Starting in 2025, people there will no longer be able to buy a gasoline or diesel-powered car—even if they want to. By law, only zero-emissions vehicles will be on sale.

There is dissent from the political opposition over this plan, but it's surprisingly low-key, given what—in bureaucratic terms—is an incredibly short time frame. Imagine somebody trying this in the U.S....

According to Inside EVs, 43,000 new plug-in electric cars were purchased in the Netherlands in 2015. Overall, 450,000 new cars were registered which, says the article's author Jay Cole, gives plug-ins a 9.6% market share. And in the Netherlands, 31% of people there use the bike as their primary mode of transport, with 27% of all trips (not just urban trips) made by bike. Public transport is at 11%, and 49% of people still use cars as their main mode of transport.

The Netherlands seems bent on unhooking itself from the oil teat, and if this new policy works, it will hasten that goal. And there may even be a nice side effect. If there are sectors still not served by electric vehicles by the time the ban comes into effect in 2025, the second-hand market in trucks might bloom. Then again, maybe all goods vehicles will be driverless by then.

[Delphinus]

1. Wow!

Good for them - wonder how that would go over here.

[hunter]

2. They're the only nation unequivocally preparing for rising sea levels too.

When the science tells the Dutch to move on some issue they do, which is pretty much a necessity if they want their below-sea-level nation to survive.

Meanwhile in the U.S.A.... well, it won't be pretty. We'll be seeing politicians and television preachers telling us to pray the floods away, and when that doesn't work, to pray for the victims. Heck of a job.

The saddest, and increasingly horrible, stories are already coming from places of great poverty where most of the people use negligible amounts of fossil fuels

[WinkyDink]

3. And Tesla sales just rose! But say good-bye to much tourism, if no gas stations will be found.

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. The law has not yet been created

The lower house of the parliament passed a motion saying it want to do this, but no law has ye been written:

A number of Dutch politicians are proposing banning the sale of gas and diesel-powered vehicles starting in 2025.

The lower house of the Dutch parliament recently supported the motion put forward by the Labour PvdA party, according to NOS. The cabinet must now come up with a plan to implement the proposal.

It calls for a complete ban on all vehicles that aren’t emissions-free, which means efficient hybrids and plug-in hybrids will also be banned. Hydrogen fuel cell cars will be allowed.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-drive/news/trans-canada-highway/netherlands-looks-to-ban-all-gas-diesel-car-sales-by-2025/article29583676/

And, as I said a few days ago, I think such a big step in commerce would have problems from a European Union free trade perspective.

[Califonz]

5. So tourists from neighboring countries...

are expected to park just outside the border and rent a car? Or use the bus?

Not sure how that's gonna work.

[ISUGRADIA]

6. New cars not all cars

Only new cars, there will be millions of gas powered vehicles still in use in The Netherlands.