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The Netherlands is making moves to ban all non-electric vehicle sales by 2025

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Re: The Netherlands is making moves to ban all non-electric vehicle sales by 2025

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Osiris30 wrote: post #50
strommen wrote: post #6

It's noteworthy that 90% of energy used in the Netherlands is fossil fuels[1] (as of 2013, anyway). This means electric cars will emit GHGs comparable to a 40-50mpg gasoline-powered car. Hopefully they do some major work to clean up their grid electricity. Electric cars are a necessary step to reducing GHG emissions, but without a clean grid they are pretty pointless. [1] https://www.iea.org/Textbase/npsum/netherland…

The Dutch cabinet has already decided to close 8 coal plants - there will only be 3 remaining [1]. Having said that - the power supply gap will now be fed from imports - and critics are claiming that those imports are more carbon intensive. A report has been commissioned... [1] http://www.nltimes.nl/2016/04/11/dutch-cabinet-to-close-two-...

German utilities have been complaining for years that excess german solar capacity is forcing them to run their dynamos below capacity, i.e. inefficiently. If the german plants gain that efficiency back by supplying dutch demand, sounds okay to me.

Re: The Netherlands is making moves to ban all non-electric vehicle sales by 2025

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Post by mcv »

mywittyname wrote: post #45

So what are people to do when there's no suitable electric vehicle that fills their need? I'm thinking mostly about businesses that need trucks and vans for shipping and distribution. It's going to be a long time before we have all electric Ranger & Transit lineup. The Dutch market is far too small for any large company to justify moving towards this. So, unless the rest of Europe moves in lockstep with them, this me…

The Dutch market is big enough. There used to be a Dutch car brand once (DAF), and while they had trouble competing with the larger foreign car brands, an entire country that has to buy electric is plenty of incentive for any car brand to jump into that market. And the last type of car that DAF continued making was big trucks.

But I think if Netherland really were to go this route (I'm doubtful, actually), then I suspect other countries would follow. Or possibly even lead.

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