In the Netherlands, politicians have voted through a motion calling for a ban of new petrol and diesel car sales beginning from 2025, The Guardian reports. It’s not set in stone yet, as the motion has only passed through the lower house of the country’s parliament and still needs to get through the senate to become legally binding.
Initially, the plan – which was proposed by the Labour Party (PvdA), the junior member of the country’s coalition government – looked at banning petrol and diesel cars from the streets entirely, but this was eventually modified to cover just new vehicles.
The proposal allows existing cars to stay in use but essentially prevent sales of any future vehicles, ensuring a transition to electric vehicles as it goes along. Presently, electric vehicles account for less than 10% of new car sales in the country.
Not everyone is in favour of the plan. It was opposed by the Labour Party’s coalition partners, the centre-right VVD, which reportedly called the idea “unrealistic.” The VVD said it was particularly concerned about whether or not the proposed law will go against the country’s energy agreement, which commits it to certain decarbonisation targets by 2020.
The PvdA however says that the proposal is feasible and that the energy agreement would not conflict with it because the agreement would run out in 2023, leaving the country free to work with other plans.
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wow this’s surprising, will bolehland following this??? Under dumno not likely will happen…
The Shell can close down! lol
They already use Teslas as taxis there.
I guess this will not affect their logistics side as diesel trucks still need to work
1 of the biggest petroleum company in the world, Shell, is from there….save themselves & sell poison to the world….
Such a profound world class decision…..
Next Norway, Finland and all the Scandinavian countries will follow.
After that Europe and North America.
Such wonderful countries…
don’t think this is a wise move. while electric car produces 0 emission, the same can’t be said about the power station that produces the electricity that runs the electric cars. Yes, they can use wind power or solar power to generate electricity, but vast land has to be used to build the power station, not to mention the component itself might contain something hazardous and will produce more CO2 and emission in the production process. So yeah, it’s cleaner in the Netherlands, but dirtier somewhere else. is it really the solution to cleaner environment? i doubt so.
they are protecting themselves, their own people priority comes first. obviously u cant expect a small country to save the whole world.