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Related: About this forumDutch Politicians Want to Make the Sale of Gasoline and Diesel-Powered Cars Illegal in 2025
A handful of Dutch politicians have proposed accelerating the shift to eco-friendly cars by banning all new gasoline and diesel-powered models starting in 2025. The same politicians want the Dutch government to make substantial investments in autonomous cars in order to put an end to the countrys traffic jam problem.
The motion was proposed by the PvdA, which is Hollands labor party, and approved by a majority of the Dutch parliaments lower house, which is known as the Tweede Kamer. The proposal calls for the ban of all vehicles that arent emissions-free, meaning that automakers wont be allowed to sell even relatively efficient models like hybrids and plug-in hybrids. If everything goes according to plan, every car sold new in Holland in less than a decade will be powered either purely by electricity or by hydrogen.
Investing in self-driving cars seems like a given, but the motion to ban the internal combustion engine once and for all has drawn criticism from across the political spectrum. Notably, the Peoples Party for Freedom and Democracy (VDD) called PvdAs motion overambitious and unrealistic. According to Henk Kamp, VDDs minister of economic affairs, only about 15 percent of all new cars sold in the Netherlands in 2025 will be all-electric, and going beyond that point in such a short period of time will be difficult. Barbara Visser, one of VDDs representatives in the Dutch parliament, was a little more blunt when she called the motion the wishful thinking of a headless chicken.
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Jan Vos, PvdAs representative in parliament, responded to the backlash by pointing out that the motion is simply a vision for an emissions-free future, and that it wont become a reality in the immediate future. He stresses that the Dutch need to kick their addiction to fossil fuels, but few politicians in Holland expect that the motion to ban gasoline and diesel-powered cars will be passed into law.
http://www.digitaltrends.com/cars/holland-wants-to-ban-gas-cars-by-2025-news-report/
The motion was proposed by the PvdA, which is Hollands labor party, and approved by a majority of the Dutch parliaments lower house, which is known as the Tweede Kamer. The proposal calls for the ban of all vehicles that arent emissions-free, meaning that automakers wont be allowed to sell even relatively efficient models like hybrids and plug-in hybrids. If everything goes according to plan, every car sold new in Holland in less than a decade will be powered either purely by electricity or by hydrogen.
Investing in self-driving cars seems like a given, but the motion to ban the internal combustion engine once and for all has drawn criticism from across the political spectrum. Notably, the Peoples Party for Freedom and Democracy (VDD) called PvdAs motion overambitious and unrealistic. According to Henk Kamp, VDDs minister of economic affairs, only about 15 percent of all new cars sold in the Netherlands in 2025 will be all-electric, and going beyond that point in such a short period of time will be difficult. Barbara Visser, one of VDDs representatives in the Dutch parliament, was a little more blunt when she called the motion the wishful thinking of a headless chicken.
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Jan Vos, PvdAs representative in parliament, responded to the backlash by pointing out that the motion is simply a vision for an emissions-free future, and that it wont become a reality in the immediate future. He stresses that the Dutch need to kick their addiction to fossil fuels, but few politicians in Holland expect that the motion to ban gasoline and diesel-powered cars will be passed into law.
http://www.digitaltrends.com/cars/holland-wants-to-ban-gas-cars-by-2025-news-report/
I would think they couldn't do that while in the EU - a drastic ban on a major business wouldn't be allowed under the single market laws.
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Dutch Politicians Want to Make the Sale of Gasoline and Diesel-Powered Cars Illegal in 2025 (Original Post)
muriel_volestrangler
Apr 2016
OP
In a country only about 150 miles long, there wouldn't be much point
muriel_volestrangler
Apr 2016
#4
Herman4747
(1,825 posts)1. Great Idea. In Holland they get around often by bike anyway. n/t
cheapdate
(3,811 posts)2. Love it!
Jerrymooney
(36 posts)3. Hyperloop
I'd like to see them take it farther and do something like the Hyperloop.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,321 posts)4. In a country only about 150 miles long, there wouldn't be much point
and it's not a replacement for cars in general - it's only for specific routes.
Jerrymooney
(36 posts)5. You're right, but...
Some value comes from showing possibilities.