‘Petrol car becomes the expensive alternative to electric driving’
In the coming years, government policies will make electric driving less attractive, but in the longer term, petrol cars will really become the more expensive alternative. Electric driving will then become more accessible to the masses than driving on fossil fuel, several experts believe.
They exchanged views during a panel discussion organised by energy consultancy Windkracht 5. According to Olof van der Gaag, chairman of the Dutch Sustainable Energy Association (NVDE), “from a purely economic point of view”, things can only go one way and electric driving will be cheaper than driving on petrol in a few years’ time. He sees petrol cars in the next decade as something only people with a lot of money can still afford.
Bringing tipping point forward
According to Pieter Litjens, chairman of the Implementation Consultation on Climate Policy Mobility, it is important to bring that tipping point forward, because at the moment he still sees the government mainly as a delaying factor. He sees the upcoming road tax on electric cars as an example of a delaying factor. Litjens does see a case for making it compulsory for the entire business market to drive electric, which would also ensure a much greater supply of electric used cars.
