The Municipality of The Hague reports that it will help entrepreneurs with moped bicycles to switch to a cleaner alternative. This concerns, for example, mobile ice cream or coffee carts with a polluting two-stroke engine. They receive € 1000 if they opt for a cleaner four-stroke or electric motor. Alderman Liesbeth van Tongeren (Sustainability and Energy Transition) announced this. The scheme is a wish of the city council and is in line with the ambition of the city council to make the air in The Hague cleaner and therefore healthier.

The exchange scheme for private individuals who replace their moped, light-moped or diesel car with cleaner transport has already been a success, more than 2000 residents of The Hague already made use of it in 2020. The municipality has made another € 500.000 available for this year. € 20.000 is available for this conversion scheme, specifically for entrepreneurs with mopeds. 

Both schemes are part of a package of measures for cleaner air in The Hague, including that since 1 December 2020 only mopeds and light mopeds from after 1 January 2011 are allowed, and all 4-stroke The Hague to drive. From 1 July of this year, only passenger cars and vans from emission class 4 - from year of construction 2006 - are allowed to drive in the center. From 2022, only trucks and buses with emission class 6 or better will be allowed in the center. This concerns vehicles built from approximately 2014.

Also read: From 1 July, the center of The Hague environmental zone