Essent laadpas
Charging card · Essent
- Subscription per month
- €4.00
- Start fee per session
- None
- Surcharge on the charger price
- None
What does your charging cost with Essent laadpas?
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Checked on September 27, 2026
Card score
Good · 7.6/10
Costs, transparency and usability, 9 public checks
- Costs (40%)5.0
- Transparency (35%)10.0
- Usability (25%)8.3
Costs
- Card (one-off)
- None
- Subscription per month
- €4.00
- Start fee per session
- None
- Surcharge on the charger price
- None: you pay the charge point’s price
A subscription is required: €4.00 per month incl. VAT (tariff sheet from 30 January 2025). Card or key fob free, no start fee and no extra cost per session. Per the product terms, the charging cost at a public charge point is set by and paid to the charge point operator. The Essent Laadpas app shows tariffs in advance.
Worked example
Extra cost per month on top of the charge point’s price at 100 kWh in 8 sessions at public chargers of €0.44 per kWh.
- Without subscription / entry plan
- €4.00
Where and for whom
- Works across Europe
- Yes
- Price shown before charging
- Yes
- Taking new customers
- Yes
- For whom
- Anyone in the Netherlands
Coverage: More than 950,000 charge points in 22 European countries; full coverage in the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg, good coverage in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and France.
Extras
ERE deal: Waitlist. Essent is preparing an ERE service with a partner for customers with an Essent home charger; for now you can only leave your details. Essent says it will then handle ERE administration for all of 2026. View this ERE offer
Home charging: Essent sells home chargers. 'Automatic settlement' of home charging with your employer costs €5.50 per month incl. VAT; reimbursement is paid mid-following month.
Business: Essent says charging costs can be settled for business use 'from this autumn'; the tariff sheet lists 'Business settlement / automatic expense claims' at €5.50 per month incl. VAT.
Contract: Open-ended; cancellable with one month's notice to the end of any calendar month. The card remains Essent property; Essent may block it after more than 2 months without use. Replacement for defects other than manufacturing faults at a replacement fee per the tariff sheet (amount not listed there).
Sources
- Essent laadpas en laaddruppel
- Tarievenblad Essent Elektrisch Laden (vanaf 30-01-2025)
- Productvoorwaarden Laadpas & Laaddiensten
- Essent automatisch verrekenen
- Essent ERE's
Checked on September 27, 2026
Price history
What changed at Essent laadpas
We record every check of our data, since September 27, 2026. Latest check: October 21, 2026. Corrections of our own mistakes do not count as changes.
- Card fee
- €0.00
- unchanged
- Subscription per month
- €4.00 per month
- unchanged
- Start fee per session
- €0.00
- unchanged
- Surcharge (percentage)
- 0%
- unchanged
- Example: extra cost per month
- €4.00 per month
- unchanged
- Charging card score
- 7.6/10
- unchanged
No changes seen since September 27, 2026. When a price, term or score changes, this shows when, and from what to what.
All trends: electricity price, charging and EREHead to head
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Card score
Card score 7.6: how it is calculated
Nine public checks, the same for every card. Anything not public earns 0 points.
Costs
5.0/10 · weight 40%- Cost in the worked exampleCheapest third: 1 · middle third: 0.5 · not computable: 00.5 / 1
- No subscription neededEntry plan without a monthly fee: 10 / 1
- Start fee per sessionNone: 1 · up to €0.35: 0.51 / 1
Transparency
10.0/10 · weight 35%- Price shown before chargingYes: 1 (AFIR Art. 5(5))1 / 1
- Price computable up frontNo, fixed or percentage surcharge: 1 · flat own kWh price: 0.51 / 1
- All amounts publicWith VAT stated: 1 · without: 0.51 / 1
Usability
8.3/10 · weight 25%- Works across EuropeYes: 11 / 1
- For any carNo brand restriction: 11 / 1
- Card and appBoth: 1 · one of them: 0.50.5 / 1