How the Labour party plan for electric cars was badly crushed

Posted on 30-03-2016 at 9:20 by perry_snijders – 113 Comments”

Politicians have the name is less reliable than second-hand car dealers. PvdA Mp Jan Vos is no exception.

Jan broke his promise to our text and to explain in his distinctive plan for the Netherlands over completely to switch to electric cars. Therefore, we dived for yourself in this totally unrealistic plan.

‘The netherlands must be to say goodbye to the fossil era, ” wrote Fox on march 16 at the site of the party. “What the Labour party is concerned is our future in the combination of winds on the North sea and the introduction of electric transport in the Netherlands.’ Exactly how that should happen is to read the energy vision, also by Fox, written with the not-too-inspiring title Work transition (PDF). Therein we read that, as of 2025, only electric cars sold in the Netherlands, but also the car with combustion engine in 2030 at all of the way gone. ‘Cars with exhausts are the new cigarette,’ writes the party.

In 2030, there would be, according to the report, 8 million electric cars in the Netherlands around have to drive. That is quite a number, when you consider that on the 29th of February of this year, but 9.790 were. The best selling cars from last month, the Kia Picanto, Peugeot 108 and Hyundai i10, in addition, substantially cheaper than the average electric car. The Picanto is available from 10.945 euro, while a Tesla Model S (the best-selling electric car in the Netherlands) you are at least 84.800 euros cost. That is, according to the PvdA, however, not a point: ‘Lithium-ion batteries were in the past years an average of 20% per year cheaper. This reduces the price of these cars are also fast and is that soon approximately at the level of a Volkswagen Golf. You can take from Amsterdam to Groningen driving without a drop of gasoline. Electric cars will soon be cheaper than cars with internal combustion engines and the Netherlands have tax, plenty of continue to promote.’ In summary: the Netherlands mass transfer on cars that now do not exist. And that has tax incentives, so the taxes on electric cars should certainly not up. If anyone later on MRB-free and BPM free drives, creates therefore a huge deficit for the government. Now provide that tax at each other as much as 7 billion euros for the treasury. Every year. But what that offset is, that you can read, of course, not in the plan of the party.

What is also not in the plan reads, is what eventually has to happen with the hard-to-recycle batteries in that 8 million electric cars sit. What you do read, is that the batteries serve to power to save those with wind turbines is generated. “That’s why our coal-fired power plants within ten years is close. That we don’t need. The batteries of our cars have been through our power supplies paired if they stop and load. Cars are, on average, 23 hours per day. With 8 million cars, we have a huge spare capacity of power available for when it is not blowing.’
Nice plan, isn’t it? And that the electricity grid is unsuitable to be 8 million electric cars to mount that not only flow, but also flow back can deliver? That are details. Grid operator Stedin: “The network can’t. In the future, a large amount of electrical cars, however, possible if we make smart adjustments, such as peakshaving, flexible load, storage, et cetera. That is especially true if the Dutch are willing to pay to any netverzwaring and expansion of the charging infrastructure.’ And that feed power to the grid? “Since we have little to nothing to adapt. There must only be sufficient charging points, and renewable power generators-created and enough smart charging points that can also feed from the car to the net.’ Understand. Sufficient charging points to 8 million cars on the net. For 9.790 electric cars which are now in the Netherlands drive around, there are estimated to be approximately 75,000. How much would you need for 8 million cars?

What we would like Jan Vos wanted to know, is what should be done with the 8 million cars in the Netherlands driving around. Export emissions, after all, moved, so demolition is the only option. But those who tap the residual value of the car at that time? And about demolishing speaking, what would in the longer term are going to happen with the hard-to-recycle batteries in all those electric cars?

Nice to see that cars with exhausts the new cigarette, but what is the Labour party, for example, barges, container ships, cruise ships and aircraft with internal combustion engines? And if cars with exhausts will soon be eliminated, how will the army do then? We go on missions in Iraq or Afghanistan looking for charging stations or call us at any addresses or we just an electrical outlet are allowed to use?

No wonder that the Labour party absolutely risky plan of Jan Vos rather weakened. When there yesterday in the Second Room was voted on the motions that have been submitted in the debate about energy, there sat a flabby movement of Fox. That was accepted, and that means that the Netherlands must strive for zero selling cars in 2025’ and the government called upon ‘for that purpose in a European context’. An ambitious, unworkable and unrealistic plan to a free bells and whistles-motietje in two weeks. An equally non-committal motion which asked the government to pay more attention to electric and self-propelled vehicles was also adopted. A concrete motion which it was proposed to aim for a 20 percent parking space with a charging station in public and new car parks plus one public charging station per three electric cars was rejected.
And Jan Vos, who in other media complained that there is only about the controversy around his plan were discussed, but no substantive questions about claimed but then unreachable loved to substantive questions? Jan Fox drive, according to The Telegraph, not in a Nissan Leaf, BMW i3 or Tesla Model S, but in a BMW 6 Series.