In the Netherlands Wednesday for the first time, a driver’s license obtained with an electric car. State secretary Joop Atsma of Infrastructure and Environment, presented the driver’s license. This, the government wants to draw attention to electric cars.
The licence was won by the 29-year-old Kim Taylor, who was both the driving test if the driving of the electric vehicle use. They rode in an Opel Ampera, which is 40-80km can drive on electricity, but then uses gasoline to recharge the battery while driving to charge. The car is thus actually a hybrid. According to state secretary Atsma is the use of an electrically powered car to the driver’s license to obtain a sign that the drive in such cars adult begins to be.
In addition, grip Atsma the opportunity to proclaim that there are in the Netherlands now have 1500 cars driving with an electric motor. In addition, there are about 3,500 charging points. In 2015 in the Netherlands, 15,000 to 20,000 electric cars driving around. In addition, several measures lead entrepreneurs have incentives to switch to electric driving.
