Already from 2025, the tax discount that electric cars get in the Netherlands will be reduced to 0. Gradually, periodic tax must also be paid on the cars.
Electric cars – perhaps apart from in the Nordic countries – are having a hard time on the European sales lists at the moment. And now the Netherlands is introducing a registration tax on electric cars.
In recent years, the subsidy for electric cars in the Netherlands has also gradually shrunk. Right now, there is 'only' a subsidy of 2,950 euros, equivalent to 22,000 kroner, to get by buying an electric car.
But in the New Year, that subsidy will cease to exist in the Netherlands. At the same time, the owners of electric cars also have to cough up to use the country's 139,000 kilometers of paved roads.
That's what Autovisie writes.
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The question is, writes the media, how it will affect the interest in electric cars in the country. Right now it is the case that electric cars must pay full periodic tax by 2031 at the latest.
Right now, the owners get away with 0 percent. But already from 2025 they must pay 25 percent of what the owners of similar diesel and petrol cars pay. At the same time, the Dutch note that interest in hybrid cars is generally increasing in the EU.
In the union's four largest markets: Germany, France, Spain and Italy, an increase in the number of new hybrid cars can be traced all around. The biggest increase with 47.4 percent is in France.
However, the hybrid cars may find it very difficult very soon. From 2027, the EU is tightening the requirements for the car type. It can, say some experts, end up being the death knell of plug-in hybrids in particular. Read more about it here .
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