Tangled charging rates due to tax increase
Significant differences between charging tariffs have emerged due to the energy tax that recently applied to electric vehicles. Sometimes these differences even exist on the same street.
This jumble of tariffs has arisen because not all charging station providers can already pass on the tax increase to end users. Price comparators Tap Electric and LaadpasTop10 have seen the differences arise as a result, the AD reports.
Before or after 2023
Although the energy tax exemption is now also a thing of the past for electric cars, tariffs have actually become lower in some parts of the country. This is the case in many places in North Brabant and Limburg, for example.
The cause of the differences lies largely in the poles that have been installed up to and including 2023, as their tariffs are fixed for the time being. For charging posts added in 2024 and 2025, the higher tariffs do apply. This also leads to charging tariffs within cities and sometimes even in streets that are quite a bit apart.
