DutchNews, June 8, 2017
The Netherlands is the world’s
fifth-largest market for electric cars after China, the US, Japan and Norway,
the Financieele Dagblad reported on Thursday.
The market, so far, is minisclule,
but growing by leaps and bounds. Only 114,050 electric cars were registered in
the Netherlands by April of this year, but they accounted for 6.4% of total new
car sales in 2016, the paper said.
Under the government’s Green Deal programme worked out with car sector
organisations, half of new car sales in 2025 should be electric or hybrid, the
paper said. In Norway, such cars already account for 33% of sales.
Electric cars account for only 0.2% of the global total, but sales are picking
up quickly according to the International Energy Agency. The IEA said the
market grew by 60% to two million in 2016 after being almost non-existent five
years ago, Bloomberg added.
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