AMSTERDAM, Aug 14 They are best known for bike-riding, but the climate-vulnerable Dutch are leading the way for electric cars with the largest number of charging stations in Europe. Teslas and other vehicles can be seen plugged in on practically every street corner thanks to a network of some.
Around one in every five of the 400,000 new cars sold annually in the Netherlands is now electric, due partly to tax breaks and other incentives during the last decade.
A plan to fight climate change involves ensuring emissions from motor vehicles fall by 55% by 2030 and drop to zero by 2035. Photo: AFP
The European Commission wants to end the sale of new petrol and diesel cars by 2035, under a massive plan to fight climate change unveiled recently.
According to one of a dozen draft laws revealed in Brussels, emissions from motor vehicles must fall by 55% by 2030 and drop to zero by 2035. As a result, all new cars registered as of 2035 will be zero emission, the statement announcing the plan said.
This would in practice mean that all cars and light vans sold from that date will be battery-powered electric cars, which currently represent less than a tenth of new registrations in the EU.
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