{"id":29560,"date":"2019-02-19T11:32:46","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T09:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adremlimburg.nl\/?p=29560"},"modified":"2026-07-08T10:29:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T08:29:38","slug":"a-sober-view-of-electric-driving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adremlimburg.nl\/en\/blog\/een-nuchtere-kijk-op-elektrisch-rijden\/","title":{"rendered":"A sober look at electric driving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>If it's up to the government, we'll be making a massive switch to electric driving in the coming years. Why don't we have fully electric vehicles in our fleet yet? Simple: due to high depreciation, that would drive up our rental prices. Plus: is electric driving really as \u2018green\u2019 as we all think at the moment?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The answer to that last question is a simple \u2018no\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-koolstofdioxide\">Carbon dioxide<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Did you know, for example, that during the production of an electric car, more CO<sub>2<\/sub> is emitted than in the manufacture of a \u2018regular\u2019 car? This is mainly due to the manufacture of the battery. Of course, electric cars make up for that once they hit the road. Over their entire lifespan, an electric car is cleaner than a petrol or diesel car. But we do need to add a few caveats here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Namely, our rental cars are replaced after a number of years and then go on to a second life as used cars. <em>At that moment<\/em> including the manufacturing process, doesn't a car or bus produce more CO<sub>2<\/sub> produced than an electric car. This assuming that the electricity on which an electric car runs is not always sourced from renewable sources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-accu-s-milieuprobleem\">Batteries' environmental problem<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the moment, the large-scale recycling of old batteries from electric cars is also not yet profitable. Of course, that will change as more electric cars come onto the road, but at the moment many batteries still end up in landfill sites in countries like China. Not exactly environmentally friendly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-motorrijtuigenbelasting\">Vehicle tax<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the time being, electric cars are exempt from vehicle tax. This means that electric car drivers do not contribute to the maintenance of the road network, even though their electric vehicles are heavier than their petrol or diesel equivalents. Not entirely fair, if you ask us. Furthermore, petrol and diesel drivers are already effectively paying for the subsidy you receive on the purchase of electric vehicles from 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-waterstof-brandstof-van-de-toekomst\">Hydrogen, fuel of the future?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Do we not care about the environment then? Nothing could be further from the truth. Electric driving will become greener and greener, but at the moment it is not as green as some would have you believe. Furthermore, we believe that the hydrogen car will eventually overtake the electric car. Perhaps sooner than you think.<\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>How do you feel about the government's plans? Will your next car be electric \u2013 why or why not? <a href=\"https:\/\/adremlimburg.nl\/en\/overige-paginas\/verhuisbus-huren-maastricht\/\">Hire a minibus in Maastricht<\/a>This is possible at Adrem Car Rental! <\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If it's up to the government, we'll be making a massive switch to electric driving in the coming years. Why don't we have fully electric vehicles in our fleet yet? Simple: due to high depreciation, that would drive up our rental prices. Plus: is electric driving really as \u2018green\u2019 as we all think at the moment?<\/p>","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,162],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nieuws","category-tanken-laden"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adremlimburg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adremlimburg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adremlimburg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adremlimburg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adremlimburg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29560"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/adremlimburg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41665,"href":"https:\/\/adremlimburg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29560\/revisions\/41665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adremlimburg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adremlimburg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adremlimburg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}