This southern Dutch city is the charging station champion of the Netherlands

The Netherlands has the best charging infrastructure for electric cars in Europe, but there are big differences between individual communities. This city stands out above all as our country’s loading master.

In the Netherlands we have an average of 3.96 electric cars per charging station. Some large municipalities are far below this, such as Haarlemmermeer with almost 23 electric vehicles per charging station.

Least good in the Netherlands

Other poorly performing municipalities are Breda (15.8 electric cars per charging station), Almere (15.5) and Amersfoort (13.4). This all emerges from an analysis by the consumer law firm Goldstein Legal.

Best performing city

The most powerful city has almost one charging station for every electric car: Rotterdam. More than 8,500 electric vehicles are registered there and there are more than 8,100 charging stations.

But electric car owners also share available charging points with fewer than one other electric car driver in eight other cities, including Zwolle (1.55), Arnhem (1.58) and Nijmegen (1.60).

Private charging points are not counted

There is nuance to the numbers above. Because in Haarlemmermeer and other “bad” communities there are probably more electric vehicle drivers with their own charging station.

Private charging points are not included in the analysis. In addition, Haarlemmermeer performs simply excellently in a European comparison. In Germany, the national average is 21 electric vehicles per charging station.

Fast chargers in the Netherlands

Fast chargers are less common in our country. On average there are 248 per electric car, with Apeldoorn (31.1), Zwolle (38.6) and Arnhem (39.67) being the leaders.

Almere (1599.2), Amersfoort (550), Haarlemmermeer (497) and Breda (443.8) perform the worst. In Rotterdam, number one on the charging station list, there are 77.7 electric vehicles per fast charger, good for 7th place.

Semi-public charging points

This analysis included not only public charging points (the charging stations on the street), but also the semi-public ones that can be found, for example, in a supermarket parking garage or a hotel.