Netherlands Moves to Only Allow EV Sales by 2025 – End of Gas, Petrol

Re:Netherlands Moves to Only Allow EV Sales by 2025 – End of... by Choronzon on Thursday March 31, 2016 @06:40AM (#11396149)

Great, Instead of cars running on petrol they can run on coal instead.

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Re:Netherlands Moves to Only Allow EV Sales by 2025 – End of... by phaemon on Thursday March 31, 2016 @06:56AM (#11396210)

Well, the Netherlands will have the same type of renewable energy targets as the rest of the EU so that should be reduced by 2025.

I believe they already buy a fair chunk of their electricity from Norway, which is practically all renewable.

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Re:Netherlands Moves to Only Allow EV Sales by 2025 – End of... by dogma1138 on Thursday March 31, 2016 @07:14AM (#11396289)

~60% or so of the actual consumed energy in (mainland) Norway currently comes from renewable sources.

Norway exports quite a bit of energy which is not "renewable" most of it is powered by gas and trash incineration.

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Re:Netherlands Moves to Only Allow EV Sales by 2025 – End of... by phaemon on Thursday March 31, 2016 @10:34AM (#11397438)

We're talking electricity here, not all energy, and 96% of electricity in Norway is from renewable (nearly all hydro).

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Re:Netherlands Moves to Only Allow EV Sales by 2025 – End of... by Choronzon on Thursday March 31, 2016 @09:37AM (#11397012)

Current renewable usage in NL is less than 4%.What can possibly go wrong?

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