Abstract
The Netherlands is considered one of the frontrunners in the field of electric mobility, both in number of plug-in electric vehicles sold as in the number of publicly available charging stations. This chapter analyses the policy measures that led to the growth in the number of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. It also provides room for a critique of the policies, with a special focus on the actual reduction of emissions. Consequently the number of public charging stations also rose. The chapter provides an analysis of how these charging stations are used and in which way this is related to sales policies. The chapter provides several lessons learned on how to shape policy to get a group of early adopters to drive electric.
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For vehicles with more 50 g of CO2 emissions the addition tax varied between 14 and 22% depending on fuel type and CO2 emissions. This was simplified to 22% in 2018 for all vehicles. In the text we have limited ourselves by focussing on EVs. A complete overview, going back to 2011 can be found on the website of the Dutch tax authority: https://www.belastingdienst.nl/bibliotheek/handboeken/html/boeken/HL/thema_s-vervoer_en_reiskosten.html#HL-21.3.4.
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Wolbertus, R., van den Hoed, R. (2020). Plug-in (Hybrid) Electric Vehicle Adoption in the Netherlands: Lessons Learned. In: Contestabile, M., Tal, G., Turrentine, T. (eds) Who’s Driving Electric Cars. Lecture Notes in Mobility. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38382-4_7
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