Driving electric: a sustainable solution
Electric transport can play a key role in reducing climate change, safeguarding energy supplies and improving the air quality – and with that the residential and living climate in the Netherlands.
Reducing climate change
Currently, transportation in, for example, the Netherlands accounts for 23% of all CO2 emissions, and this proportion in increasing all the time. Electric modes of transport can make a substantial contribution to reducing these emissions. If 1 million electric cars were to be in use in the Netherlands, these would generate a saving on the CO2 emissions equivalent to 1.2 million households. If those electric cars were all to run on sustainable energy, they would even compensate the CO2 emissions of 1.8 million households.
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Safeguarding energy supplies
In addition, electrically-powered vehicles make us less dependent on fossil fuels such as oil. After all, driving electric means we can use a much wider range of energy sources and opens up a lot more possibilities for making effective use of sustainable energy, such as wind and solar energy.
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Improving the residential and living climate
Electric cars, scooters and other modes of transport do not emit any CO2 or particulate matter and are odourless and noiseless. They therefore contribute to better air quality and improve the residential and living climate in the Netherlands.