Dutch ministers propose ban on gas, diesel cars by 2025

Dutch politicians have proposed a ban on all gas and diesel-powered cars by 2025.

Members of the PvdA party have submitted the plan to a ban all emissions-releasing cars, including hybrids.

Under the plan, car dealers would only be allowed to offer electric or hydrogen-powered vehicles.

PvdA members also called for increased government investment to research and develop automated vehicles to help solve ongoing traffic problems in The Netherlands.

A majority in the Tweede Kamer lower house of Parliament, approved the measure, with resistance from the other main party.

Members of the VDD party opposed the plan, saying it was “overambitious and unrealistic.”

The VDD Minister of Economic Affairs Henk Kamp, estimated that in 2025, only around 15 per cent of vehicles in the country will be electric.

Jan Vos, who presented the proposal, said: “It is a vision piece…It’s not that this is going to happen right away.”