Marieke’s Electric Car Experience: Avoiding Stranded Situations and The Costly Mistake

Marieke has been driving electrically for almost 3 years now, but she has never been stranded along the road with an empty battery. “I just drove on for too long,” says the radio DJ. “I thought: it’s still possible. So now the ANWB is coming… I hope (…) they will arrive within 1.5 hours and it will also cost a lot of money.”

Marieke has double bad luck tonight because not only does she have an empty battery, she also finds out after calling the ANWB that her lease contract includes a breakdown service. “I didn’t know,” she sighs in her Instagram Stories. “Now I have concluded a very expensive ANWB contract. Really stupid, I called in a panic.”

Finally, around 1:28 AM, her saving angel arrives. “I don’t think I’ll ever run my car empty again.”