Fastned
CFO) | |
Revenue | €60.5 million (2023) |
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−€12.1 million (2023) | |
−€19.25 million (2023) | |
Total assets | €357 million (2023) |
Total equity | €146 million (2023) |
Owner |
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Number of employees | 222 (End of Year 2023) |
Website | fastnedcharging |
Footnotes / references [1][2][3][4] |
Fastned is a Dutch company that owns and operates a growing network of 297 stations with 1,714
The company, a
History
Fundraising and first stations
Fastned B.V. was founded in February 2012 by Michiel Langezaal and Bart Lubbers, the son of former Prime Minister Ruud Lubbers.[2][7] The company received a permit that same year to build and operate charging stations at 201 rest areas in the Netherlands for a period of fifteen years.[8] The first four locations opened in November 2013, the first of which was located at rest area Palmpol in Terschuur, Gelderland.[9][10]
Building a single charging station required about €200,000.
The fiftieth charging station near
Further expansion
In 2018, the usage of Fastned's charging stations had slowly increased to an average of five to six customers daily. According to Langezaal, nearly one third of the stations were
The company started being listed on
During the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Fastned experienced negative effects; its sales declined by 70% from February to March.[29]
Network
As of March 2024, Fastned's network consists of 308 EV charging stations, of which 173 are located in the Netherlands. The lion's share of Dutch charging stations are located at highway rest areas. Three are located at Albert Heijn supermarkets, and some more are situated in cities. The charging stations outside the Netherlands are in Germany (19), the United Kingdom (6), Belgium (2), and Switzerland (2). Four German locations are at hotels of Van der Valk, while the remaining are close to highways. The first British location was in Sunderland, and the company has won a tender to expand to London.[1][30][31] In Switzerland, Fastned had won a tender to build twenty charging stations.[32] Fastned's stations were used a total of 194,000 times during the last quarter of 2020 by 53,000 different customers.[1] The company has plans to expand to France.[28]
The earlier charging stations are characterized by two yellow arches with a curved roof, consisting of solar panels, in between.[16] The company introduced a new station design in 2016 with a higher roof in order to accommodate electric trucks. Additionally, it is better suited to increases in the number of individual charging points at a station.[7] The roof is still composed of solar panels, but they are see-through in the new design.[33]
Fastned allows roaming access to their network for third party apps and access cards. Current partners include Gireve,[34] Q8 in Belgium,[35] Paua in the UK[36] and Greenflux across Europe.[37]
Country | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
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Netherlands | 98 | 105 | 132 | 151 | 168 |
Germany | 15 | 19 | 31 | 37 | 39 |
United Kingdom | 1 | 6 | 8 | 12 | 20 |
Belgium | 2 | 9 | 18 | 24 | |
Switzerland | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | |
France | 6 | 23 | 38 | ||
Denmark | 1 |
Finances
Fastned's revenue had been close to zero during its initial years due to a low number of customers. In recent years, it has increased to €36 million (2022). The company has never turned a profit due to its continuing expansion.
Year[39] | Revenue in mil. EUR |
Net income in mil. EUR |
Total assets in mil. EUR |
Employees on average, FTE |
Number of charging stations |
Electricity delivered in GWh |
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2012 | 0.00 | –0.3 | 0.2 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
2013 | 0.00 | –0.8 | 3.0 | 14 | 5 | 0.002 |
2014 | 0.01 | –2.2 | 7.6 | 19 | 19 | 0.038 |
2015 | 0.1 | –4.0 | 16.7 | 24 | 50 | 0.129 |
2016 | 0.3 | –5.1 | 18.6 | 21 | 57 | 0.460 |
2017 | 0.6 | –5.0 | 33.0 | 24 | 63 | 1.006 |
2018 | 1.6 | –6.5 | 40.7 | 40 | 85 | 2.903 |
2019 | 6.4 | –12.0 | 57.6 | 47 | 114 | 7.969 |
2020 | 6.9 | –12.4 | 80.3 | 54 | 131 | 11.044 |
2021 | 12.4 | –24.6 | 214.6 | 76 | 188 | 20.9 |
2022 | 36 | –22.2 | 315.2 | 114 | 244 | 51.9 |
Lawsuits
Fastned has been involved in a number of lawsuits concerning permits to operate at rest areas.
Initial permit
A number of
Amenities at charging stations
When Fastned wanted to add toilets and convenience stores at some of their locations, Rijkswaterstaat, the owner of the land of rest areas, did not grant the necessary permits. The government agency considered it inappropriate and unsafe to have some amenities twice at a single rest area.[41] Fastned subsequently went to court in 2017 and won the case, as the judge found that Rijkswaterstaat provided insufficient support for its claim.[42] Rijkswaterstaat appealed the decision, but lost again in 2019 at the Council of State, forcing the agency to grant a permit or to come up with better reasons for another denial.[43]
Royal Dutch Shell
After
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