The Netherlands has always been ahead of the curve on EV policy. In 2026, several regulatory developments converge that directly affect how fleet operators charge their electric trucks. Here's what you need to know.

When fleet managers evaluate the switch from diesel to electric, the conversation usually starts with range and charging speed. Those are important — but they're not what keeps operations managers up at night. What keeps them up is process.

A diesel truck pulls into a fuel station, the driver swipes a fuel card, fills up, and leaves. It takes 8 minutes. The driver has done it 10,000 times. It's muscle memory.

Now consider the electric equivalent without Plug & Charge: the driver parks at the charger, gets out, opens an app (if they remember which one), scans a QR code (if the camera works, if there's enough light, if the app doesn't time out), waits for authorization, plugs in, and hopes it starts. Each step is a potential failure point, a potential support call, a potential 20-minute delay on a schedule that has no margin.

Plug & Charge eliminates all of that. The driver plugs in the cable. Charging starts. That's it.

When we tell people we install electric truck chargers at theaters, we get a puzzled look. Then we explain the logic, and the puzzled look becomes a nod.

Here's the thing: installing a 400 kW charger isn't like putting up a garden light. You need serious electrical infrastructure — the kind that costs hundreds of thousands of euros to build from scratch. Theaters already have it.