The Electric Car Commission, the Electric Car Commission, has long worked to promote the use of green cars in Denmark, reports DR.
Its latest recommendations on Monday included proposals to raise the prices of petrol and diesel, a subsidy for electric car owners and a general toll of 1,000 kroner for motorists.
According to the original plan, the Commission was obliged to make recommendations on how to reduce Danish car taxes so that customers could get more electric cars and fewer petrol and diesel vehicles.
And it seems that the cost of operating a petrol and diesel vehicle will depend on the number of electric vehicles on our roads.
In 2030, it will cost an owner of a petrol or diesel-powered car an additional 400 kroner a year if politicians aim to have 500,000 electric cars, the Commission concluded.
In addition, if politicians aim for 750,000 electric cars, the extra costs increase to 2,300 kroner annually, while one million electric cars raise them to 5,900 kroner annually.
However, the Electric Car Commission also pointed out that the proposal does not fulfill the task, as it will only eliminate CO2 emissions to some extent.
The Climate Council disagrees
According to the report from the Electric Car Commission, the Climate Council’s Climate Council maintained that aiming for one million electric cars on the road in 2030 is the only way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by up to 70 percent.
The chairman of the council, Peter Møllgaard, said on the occasion that if this policy is not adopted, society will have to make reductions elsewhere.
The Climate Council stated in its latest report that the country may need 1.5 million electric cars by 2030 – depending on how much greenhouse gas emissions are reduced in other sectors.
However, the electric car commission’s recommendations have omitted this scenario.
Brian Vad Mathiesen, professor of energy planning at Aalborg University, considered the recommendations disappointing and unambitious.
Experts further pointed out that the Commission had not been able to recommend a ‘concrete’ model against the transition to a greener car fleet.
Source: The Nordic Page