‘More intake needed’
The supply of second-hand electric cars does not yet meet the demand of the average used car buyer. This is the conclusion of the Knowledge Institute for Mobility Policy (KiM). There is a particular need for more compact electric cars.
The sale of new electric cars in the Netherlands is not yet really helping when it comes to making our fleet more sustainable. The KiM calculates that an average of 70,000 electric cars have been added to the Dutch fleet in the past three years, but it must be 450,000 per year to replace the entire fleet in 20 years. The inflow must therefore increase, also in order to better serve used car buyers.
According to KiM, not only are there still relatively few second-hand electric cars (328,000), but they also do not sufficiently meet the demand of used car buyers. They are still relatively young (4 years on average) and, partly because of this, logically still too expensive for many second-hand buyers, although that is not the major stumbling block that KiM puts forward. The institute says that there are too few used electric vehicles in the segments in which the Dutch second-hand buyer is mainly looking.
“Current buyers of fossil fuel used cars have a preference for cars from the small-middle segment (B and C). These are also sufficiently available, because they were bought new in sufficient numbers in the past. Such cars are still rarely available as electric used cars A large group of potential buyers is therefore not being served at the moment, because the desired cheaper, older used BEVs are not yet available.” They are of course there, think of the Renault Zoe or Volkswagen e-Golf, for example. For the occasion buyer, it is probably now mainly a matter of waiting for compact electric occasions with even more usable specifications.
Boost sales of compact EVs?
The Volkswagen ID3 and Peugeot e-208, among others, are slowly trickling onto the used car market, but according to KiM, this should be further stimulated. “It makes sense to continue to make the more compact and mid-sized segments more attractive for BEV new sales, such as with subsidies. Furthermore, the import of used cars from these segments may bring more balance here.” The KiM does not see any stumbling blocks for the flow of new electric cars to the Dutch used car market. That while there are still occasional concerns about the export of (whether or not subsidized) Dutch electric cars.
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