Dutchman waiting for a larger supply of used EVs
Electric cars are generally more expensive to purchase than new passenger cars with a petrol engine. More than half of the Dutch people who are considering switching to an electric car would go for a second-hand electric car. This is evident from research by Pricewise.
The ANWB’s annual Electric Driving Monitor recently showed that 37 percent of the Dutch are interested in switching to electric driving. A quarter of them want to do this within the next five years, while 23 percent indicated that they did not want to purchase an electric car at all. Research by Pricewise together with Panel Inzicht among 1,000 respondents shows more or less comparable figures. A (small) majority of the Dutch people interested in electric driving say they want to go for a used electric car.
51 percent of the Dutch people who want to switch to electric driving within 10 years would go for a second-hand car. However, 32 percent say they want to buy a new EV, while 17 percent say they want to go for a private lease construction. “Motorists are still waiting for second-hand electric cars. There will only be more second-hand vehicles after many new electric cars have been sold for several years (an average of three years),” says Hans de Kok, director of price comparison site Pricewise. “A new electric car is relatively expensive in terms of purchasing power and therefore unattainable for a large part of the Netherlands, even with the subsidy. A second-hand car is a better option. Unfortunately, the limited supply does not yet match the second-hand demand.”
ANWB’s Electric Driving Monitor recently showed that electric driving is currently mainly something for higher income groups. The same study showed that the Dutch are willing to pay more for an electric car, although the amount they are willing to pay is still far from the average prices on the used car market. This also applies to the amount that people are willing to pay for a non-electric car. People are willing to pay €12,997 on average for a second-hand electric car, 21 percent more than for a used petrol car (€10,749).
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– Thanks for information from Autoweek.nl