"Loading posts must pay a penalty rate"

PitPoint, a clean fuel company, was already looking for a possible solution with TU Delft and the University of Applied Sciences in Amsterdam: loading post-load stickers during the hours they occupied a loading station with their car loaded. "And it works for us," says PitPoint's Bas Gerzon. "80 per cent of loading stations are subject to a penalty rate, that is, they will withdraw their car if they have to pay extra after being debited, even at a low amount of 25 cents per hour, for example. "

As one of the few suppliers, Nuon / Vattenfall Energy introduced a regional rate between 07:00 and 19:00, or as they prefer to call it: a minimum purchase obligation. "We found that only 20% of the time occupied by a charging station is charged," says Anouk IJfs of Nuon. "During a test in Amsterdam, we introduced an additional fee for loading a loaded car to the charging station, which proved to be a success: almost twice as many loads are carried out on a busy battery, and because people are moving their car, the availability of charging stations has increased by 27% .In North Brabant and Limburg, the e-driver who now leaves his car charged must simply pay 18 cents of VAT per hour. "

Despite the success met, Nuon uses this system. for the moment only in the two southern provinces. In addition, only electric drivers with a Nuon pass pay for the supplement. A person with a payment card from another company does not pay extra if the loaded car remains on the charging station of Nuon.

"This seems to be detrimental to our own customers, but we can only make it known that with the current systems Hopefully this will change in the future, but we hope to be an example now, with more and more of electrical conductors who will join us, then we will have to deal socially with the available places. "

The difference between Nuon's customers and other cardholders According to Sytse Zuidema of NewMotion, the largest provider of payment cards, is exactly what is complicated in this whole story. "This is a market with a lot of stakeholders and interests around a charging station.There are hundreds of contracts between charging station operators, energy providers and charge card providers in Europe, which must first become more transparent before we can add an extra fee.occupied, because we are for different rates it is clear for all customers in advance, although I do not like not the term penalty, it's simply a higher rate for people who want to leave their car. "