‘Range stress no longer an issue in the Netherlands’

ALD Automotive conducted research into electric driving among nearly 1,600 lease drivers. This concerns business lease drivers and people with a private lease car. About 700 of them already drive electrically, the rest do not yet. The lease car drivers surveyed are remarkably positive about the number of charging points in the Netherlands. 79 percent of the respondents say that they no longer see the number of charging points in the Netherlands as an obstacle to electric driving. That is not quite the same as ‘no more charging stress’, but ALD also asked about that. 69 percent appear to be no longer afraid to come to a standstill in the Netherlands. If we look at satisfaction with the number of charging points in the residential environment, it appears that 51 percent are not very satisfied with this. That seems like a lot, but it is much less than last year’s 63 percent.

Is there nothing at all for ALD’s lease drivers that could be a barrier to driving electrically? Anyway. For 39 percent of electric lease drivers and 59 percent of non-electric lease drivers, the full energy network is a reason not to opt for an electric car. A possible solution to that problem is charging the EV more often at work, i.e. during the day. There is good news in that regard, because at 25 percent, the number of lease drivers who have this option has grown considerably compared to last year (15 percent). Jeroen Kruisweg, general manager of ALD Automotive: “Although this is partly due to the higher energy prices and the energy ceiling, it can certainly be called positive. We notice that employers are increasingly facilitating charging points for employees. This is a great development that helps to relieve the pressure on the energy network in neighborhoods and to accelerate the adoption of electric driving in general.”