The breakthrough of electric cars definitely not only depends on the technology issues. The purchase of an electric car is more expensive, in spite of the fact that your driving cost is a multiple times less than a combustion car.
To compensate this additional cost, some countries give tax benefits when buying an electric car. For example: in Norway is an electric car cheaper than a combustion car!
Unfortunately, Belgium doesn’t want to support electric mobility enough. ASBE (the Belgian section of AVERE, the European organization that suppliers, importers and distributors of electric vehicles unites) states that the 15% tax benefit on the purchase amount isn’t sufficient to close the gap between an electric and a combustion car. This is a sad fact cause electric mobility also offers opportunities to local economy, improve the living environment and can perfectly use renewable energy sources in order to limit climate change. Belgium would in this way be more independent of oil.
In the beginning of this year, all parties involved signed a National masterplan with the intention to support electric mobility. Instead of supporting this, the Belgian government toke a step back by not maintaining the tax benefits.
This is sad news… but not kills the electric car. We need bigger countries like Norway who support electric mobility! After all… Belgium is a small country…
To finish this blog, I want to show you a special electric sports car.
It has over 1,000 hp and accelerates from 0 to 100 in 2.8 seconds… said enough? Interesting fact is that some parts (lights, steering wheel and interior light strips) are made by Materialise, which is a 3d printing company located in Haasrode. You can find more info of this nice car on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rimac_Concept_One
Reference article blog: http://www.knack.be/nieuws/auto/belgie-keert-elektrische-mobiliteit-de-rug-toe/article-4000220024080.htm
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