AMSTERDAM, Aug 14 — They are best known for bike-riding, but the climate-vulnerable Dutch are leading the way for electric cars with the largest number of charging stations in Europe. Teslas and other vehicles can be seen plugged in on practically every street corner thanks to a network of some...
AMSTERDAM, Aug 14 — They are best known for bike-riding, but the climate-vulnerable Dutch are leading the way for electric cars with the largest number of charging stations in Europe.
Bergsma, a 37-year-old mature student living in the centre of the port city, said she had wanted to “contribute to the protection of the environment”. With one-third of the Netherlands lying below sea-level, the country is particularly at risk from climate change, which UN experts this week warned was at “code red”.The Dutch government wants all new cars to be electric from 2030 in the Netherlands, where road traffic accounts for a fifth of greenhouse gas emissions.
Fully-charged, Nienke Bergsma’s Volvo has a range of 400 kilometres, a distance that the environment and natural sciences student practically never travels.
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