In 2019 a lease contract was concluded for a total of 1,128,000 cars. That is a growth of 12.8 percent compared to a year earlier. Both the private lease market and the business passenger car market are growing strongly.
This is according to figures from the Association of Dutch Car Leasing Companies (VNA). The market for private lease cars is growing fastest in 2019. In total, more than 188,000 customers are tacking; a growth of 25.6 percent. In business terms, 740,000 passenger cars (+9.5 percent) and 200,000 lease delivery cars (+14.5 percent) end up on the Dutch road. With growth, a strong upward trend is continued, because in the two years before, the market also consistently grew by more than 10 percent.
The total Dutch vehicle fleet grew from 9,374,000 to more than 9,544,000 vehicles. The vast majority are passenger cars, with a share of 8,570,000 vehicles. At 10.8 percent of these cars it is a lease car. Of the more than 107,700 electric cars, it concerns a lease car in 53 percent of the cases. Hydrogen cars too are finding their way to Dutch customers. Of the 220 hydrogen cars registered at the end of 2019, 130 cars (60 percent) are under a lease contract. The number of delivery vans grew by 2.6 percent in 2019 to 974,000 units; 20.6 percent of the orderers are leased.