Review: 2 years, plug-in hybrids in the Netherlands

Posted on 02-02-2015 at 10:10 by Dizono – 23 Comments”

About two years ago they were suddenly there: plug-in hybrids. And each month there came, fueled by bijtellingsvoordeel, many hundreds to thousands. Looking back we can conclude that none of the effects of so many plug-in hybrids to fully grasp.

You can use a plug-in hybrid, of course, just as driving as any other diesel or petrol car, although the car is rather a negative than a positive effect on the environment. Where a plug-in with regularly charge less emissions than a conventional car, drag you never recharge an electric motor and battery pack, and the car may even be less economical than a similar car with a combustion engine.

Regular recharging is so essential to keep the usage down to get should there be investment to be done. This should include both at work and at home opportunities for charging. Can an employer be difficult, especially if suddenly dozens or more employees a plug-in hybrid to go lease. And who is going to take that infrastructure to pay? The employer must pay for the benefit that the employee with favorable tax enjoy?

Plug-in always more expensive
According to a survey of Mobility Result, carried out on behalf of LeasePlan, is a plug-in hybrid for the employer at any mileage more expensive than a car on petrol or diesel. It is also not at all crazy to the normleasebedrag for plug-in hybrids based on petrol cars. This is the plug-in hybrid for the driver is slightly more expensive and may be a private contribution to a plug-in to be able to lease the same size as a comparable petrol car. These higher costs will be on the other side compensated by a lower surcharge for the driver and also ensure that the employer employees cost neutral in a car can let it ride, both for the environment and cost effective for the employee is interesting. Your boss wants you and not the bullying as a plug-in hybrid a higher lease rate than you expected, but will not be over.

In this graph has Mobiliy Result, the fair rent of an Audi A3 Sportback plotted against a given number of kilometres per year. There is assumed a maturity of 48 months and in the rent are all cost included. It is clear that the plug-in hybrid is always more expensive.

Above the norm
That cars in general, not more in the area of the with the ECE standard laid consumption, is no secret. When motor fuel or diesel cars amounts to the derogation according to research from TNO 25 to 50 percent. That plug-in hybrids have a larger deviation of the normverbruik have we knew already, but the difference is alarmingly high: preferably between 125 and 250 percent. That difference is all the greater when you start to drive with a plug-in. There is then less opportunity to meantime, to loading and a greater part of the distance will be driven with petrol or dieselaandrijving instead of electricity. It is according to the Mobility Result, especially for riders that have more than 30,000 miles per year driving is difficult in practice to much on electricity to drive. The advice to employers is to leaserijders annually over that number of miles out not the choice to give from plug-in hybrids.

That the average deviation of the normverbruik of a plug-in hybrid, in this case, the Volkswagen Golf GTE, greater when a greater number of kilometres driven, is clearly visible in this graph.

Not per definition more efficient
Incidentally, it is not necessarily that plug-in hybrids to their normverbruik. If you drive daily 30 miles from and to work and charge your car properly, then you can even a large portion of your miles of electric driving. More than a conventional car is the fuel consumption so heavily dependent on the use. So pick up approximately 25 percent of the users, however, the normverbruik and knew at the end of last year, even someone with almost 3000 kilometers to drive with a Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV without refuelling.

Benefits
Well, after all these negative news, we’re almost the benefits of plug-in hybrids to forget, because they are there too, of course! That benefits start of course, with the convenient inclusion for the rider, that can add up to thousands of euro’s savings per year, even though it is the leasetarief higher. In addition, stekkerauto’s a beneficial impact on the environment, provided they are used correctly. Its sticky green image is of course also a nice bonus in a time of sustainability for businesses the magic word is.

Not on time or simply do not recharge the plug-in hybrid may have to do with laziness or slothfulness, may also play fear for a sky-high electricity bill. Refuel after all, with the tankpas, while the car is at home charging is tapped on the own meter. Right? No, that is fortunately not true. A leasing company can be a laadpakket supply, including a charging point, 24-hour emergency service and automatic declaration of electricity.

Look here for the most recent plug-in hybrids of LeasePlan.

Erratic sales of plug-in hybrid’s
Because the sale of plug-in hybrids are so strongly associated with the bijtellingsbeleid of the government, the number of sales the past few years, erratic. In 2013, there were about twenty thousand plug-in hybrids sold and last year there were “only” twelve thousand. It is striking that the Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV and Volvo V60 Plug-In Hybrid low popularity is eroded, while cars like the Opel Ampera and the Toyota Prius Plug-in with about 99 percent are down. In 2015 the offer plug-in hybrids with larger and more competitive than ever. Newcomers like the Volkswagen Golf and Passat GTE, Mercedes-Benz C 350e Plug-In Hybrid and the Volvo XC90 T8 Twin Engine would be best may lead to a growth in the sales of plug-in hybrids.

With the number of electric and semi-electric cars is growing, the number of charging points. There were at the beginning of 2014 is still about 3400 public charging stations at this time are that there are around 4200. For comparison, in the summer of 2011 was the 500th public charging station opened, so the number is growing fast. How much thuislaadpunten and charging stations at work, there are exactly is not known, the fact remains that a steadily growing infrastructure is essential to the sustainable deployment of plug-in hybrids as possible, to make and to keep.

Fotocredit: gulli on autojunk.nl