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Yeah.. The Netherlands will ban it 15 years before France. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/apr/18/netherlands-parliament-electric-car-petrol-diesel

• cr1895 9y ago
  >The Netherlands will ban it 15 years before France. Will is far, far too strong a word. This was a Labour (PvdA) initiative, and after the recent election PvdA is in shambles. They likely will not be a part of the (yet non-existing) coalition government. The main party to the coalition government (VVD) is opposed. So we can fairly surely guess that this ain't happening.
• phreeza 9y ago
  Maybe easier to do for them because you can cross all of the Netherlands in a modern EV already?
  • jacquesm 9y ago
    A good percentage of the Dutch holidays in France or Spain and they take their caravan with them. That sort of trip will be hard on an EV. I also wonder what kind of exception they intend to make for cargo transport because those vehicles (especially the smaller ones) are extremely price sensitive.
• realusername 9y ago
  This announcement goal is to change the mentalities and set a direction, people in this thread are taking it way too literally. The public (even the younger generation) currently thinks electric cars are a kind of joke, putting 2040 makes it far away enough that people will think it's possible to go into another direction. It does not matter if it can be done by 2030, the public would just dismiss the announcement as unrealistic.