Also a call for ‘pay as you go’
The Dutch government should continue to encourage electric cars for longer and continue to focus on ‘pay as you go’. That and more is the opinion of the Rai Association, which turns to informant Ronald Plasterk.
The Christmas recess is over and so there are intensive discussions in The Hague again between informant Ronald Plasterk and the forming political parties PVV, NSC, BBB and VVD. The Rai Association hopes that mobility in the Netherlands will also be on the table during the consultations and is already making some suggestions for the coming years. The association would like to see tax incentives for electric driving after 2025. This obviously costs money, which, according to the Rai Association, should not be incurred by people who do not yet drive electric cars. Otherwise, it is feared that driving a car could become unaffordable for part of society.
According to the Rai Association, the ‘payment according to usage’ so feared by some, popularly called kilometer tax, should also remain on the table. The last Rutte cabinet put this on the agenda for the next decade and the Rai Association is in favor of the concept, which includes an ‘environmental component’. “This encourages economical driving and rewards the purchase of clean vehicles, and encourages sustainable behavior among both citizens and companies,” the association said. The importers’ interest group also advocates, among other things, further investment in charging and refueling infrastructure for emission-free trucks, more focus on renewable fuels and the encouragement of bicycles, mopeds, mopeds and motorcycles (electric or otherwise) for commuting.
– Thanks for information from Autoweek.nl