The Dutch electric car market is in decline. The incentives that are offered now are not so attractive anymore. People are delaying replacing the battery electric vehicles (BEV) they got a few years ago with lavish incentives until those incentives wear out since there is hardly any financial incentive to … [continued]
The economic slowdown from the coronavirus has induced some governments to try to stimulate the economy. Two of the Dutch incentives are worth a closer look.
The Netherlands is already a clear leader in the shift to electric vehicles, but it has decided it wasn’t doing enough and has just stepped up its game.
What is happening in the Netherlands is illustrative of what is going to happen in the surrounding countries. The key to understanding this is a European phenomenon (tax loophole) — company cars for private use.
Remco van der Horst, COO of renewable energy crowdinvesting company Duurzaaminvesteren and founder of consultancy Greenproc, was one of the key people who organized meetings for me during my cleantech tour of the Netherlands last year. Ironically, because my on-camera chat with him and Christiaan van Nispen of energy giant … [continued]
Originally published on EV Obsession. In my recent trip to the Netherlands, I got to speak with a handful of electric vehicle experts. Of course, I was quite curious about EV incentives, so I probed them about those. The Netherlands is one of the top countries in the world in terms … [continued]
