Not yet on the EV by 2025
As of 2025, business lease drivers are not yet obliged to switch to an electric car. That message The Telegraph. The government plan to put employees with a lease car in an EV has been scrapped.
One of the plans of Climate Minister Rob Jetten (D66) was to make it compulsory for business lease drivers to drive an electric car by 2025. The Telegraph now understands from sources in The Hague that that plan did not make it. The ‘EV obligation’ therefore seems to be over.
The plan would have fallen apart when calculations by the Ministry of Finance showed that it would save €4.5 billion to €5 billion in the Dutch treasury, partly because this mandatory switch means that less excise duty and VAT are collected. They then wanted to close that gap by significantly increasing the bpm on new fuel cars, but that led to resistance within the coalition.
‘Employers, don’t oblige it yet’
Trade association Bovag believes that employers should be aware of this change and should not force their employees to drive electrically. This call has to do with the subsidy plans, which will only apply to used electric cars. Bovag chairman Han ten Broek explains according to The Telegraph: “The government only allocates €600 million for used cars. That has no effect on new sales of electric cars. It is therefore logical to no longer make the standard mandatory.”
Ten Broeke says that the Bovag is ‘very disappointed’ in the remaining plans of the cabinet and is concerned about the greening and rejuvenation of the Dutch car fleet now that new electric cars will not be stimulated in the future. The Association of Electric Drivers agrees: “If we want affordable electric cars to become available as soon as possible, it was logical to make the business electric car mandatory.”
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– Thanks for information from Autoweek.nl