Away with petrol and diesel cars: within eight years, the municipality of Amsterdam no longer wants to have polluting cars within the city limits and must everything electric† The big goal is an emission-free Amsterdam by 2030, but shouldn’t this ambitious plan be implemented throughout North Holland?
From 2030, the municipality of Amsterdam wants to ban all petrol and diesel cars within the A10 ring road. With this measure, the city is tightening up one of the goals from the Climate Agreement: in eight years’ time, new cars in the Netherlands may only be fully electric. Even earlier, in 2025, taxis, trucks, buses, delivery vans and vessels within the Ring A10 must be fully electric. The same applies to mopeds and mopeds.
Still, it’s still quite a race against the clock: for example, thousands of extra charging stations have to be installed to charge all those electric cars. There are currently just under 6,000 public charging points within the ring and that number should grow to 18,000.
North Holland has the most public charging points
Currently, approximately six percent of Amsterdam passenger cars are electric. It is therefore expected that the number of zero-emission vehicles will grow significantly in the coming years.
The number of electric cars is increasing not only in the city, but also in the rest of the province. Most public charging points per household can be found in North Holland: 7.5 public charging points per 1,000 households.
What do you think about this plan, should all of North Holland drive electric by 2030?