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Fastned Volume Growth Up 500% For Q1 2016, Compared To Q1 2015

April 18th, 2016 by James Ayre

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I wonder how the US Fast Charging networks are doing?

The Netherlands-based electric vehicle fast-charging network company Fastned is continuing to grow at a rapid clip, going by the company's recently released Quarter 1 2016 numbers.



To quickly summarize here: volume growth during the quarter was 500% (as compared to Quarter 1 2015); revenue growth was 370% (as compared to Quarter 1 2015); revenue growth was 21% and volume growth was 37% as compared to Quarter 4 2015; and active customer growth was 31% as compared to Quarter 4 2015.

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Originally published on EV Obession.

"Fastned continues to grow rapidly in terms of the number of customers, kWh delivered, and revenues. On top of this we see a major shift in the perception towards electric cars around the world and in the Netherlands. End of March the Dutch Parliament adopted a motion ordering the Government to strive for 100% of new cars sold after 2025 to have zero emissions. The enormous interest in the Tesla Model 3 (already more than 280,000 pre-orders) shows that people can't wait to drive electric. We are building the charging network that will be required to provide all these cars with the electricity they need."





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Fastned CEO Michiel Langezaal commented:

It's http://www.toysrus.com/products/breast-pumps.jsp great to see that the company is still doing quite well, as the lack of reliable charging infrastructure in much of Europe is arguably the primary barrier to wider EV adoption. Fastned is currently in the planning and financing phase of its efforts to expand its network throughout continental Europe.

In addition to this growth, the company also recently completed a rollout of Tesla adapters at its electric vehicle (EV) fast-charging stations throughout the Netherlands. In addition, the company secured a new deal with Nissan that will see LEAFs given 4 years of unlimited charging at the company's various stations in the region.

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My personal pumping experience illustrates the main challenges. I am a family doctor and work at various office settings and urgent cares. The first challenge was informing the different office managers that I needed to pump; uncomfortable conversations ensued with people that didn't face this kind of request very often, most were very supportive, but I am sure many women deal with less-cooperative management.

When you put it all together: hard to assemble and take apart, multiple pieces and limitations, plus the fact that most pumps are definitely designed to be used in a very private setting, as the look is embarrassing even among family and friends, and you find yourself with a machine that is hardly user http://www.babycenter.com/breastfeeding-breast-pumps friendly.



The Freemie is a on the right track, this system has a collection cup shape that can be placed in the bra; it is hands free and does not require taking any clothes off.



This new pump would do wonders for breastfeeding. Mothers want to do the best for their children and try hard, but often the obstacles ahead of them are numerous, persistent and exhausting. Let's put our amazing technological skill at the service of mothers and babies. We have put people on the moon, it is time we focus on more earthly targets and give mothers a high tech breast pump they can work with.

The third challenge was finding a time and place to pump. In the rush of urgent care and primary care medicine time was hard to come by. I had 30-60 minutes for lunch, which I had to allocate for completing patient notes, lunch, and pumping. I didn't automatically get pump breaks in the patient schedule, so beyond what was allocated for lunch time, pump time required further bargaining. Appointments were back to back, and often visits required more time than expected. In this scenario I had to find a private room with a lockable door, to avoid any breast pump flashing, then pull out the device, plug it in, hook up and turn on the machine for a total prep and pump time of about 20 minutes. This needs to be repeated every few hours and can cause havoc on your schedule.



I am sure we could do even better. MIT Media Lab is conducting a "Make the Breast Pump not Suck Hackaton" on Sept 20-21, 2014. Let's hope they can come up with something.

Pumps and lactation support services are now covered by insurance, which should translate into growth for the pump market. Some of these funds need to be made available for research and development. Maybe even the military, with so many women joining its ranks, could allocate funds to the redevelopment of the breast pump for the active duty mother.

When asking mothers why they stop or cut down on breastfeeding, a significant proportion say returning to work was the deal breaker for them. The difficulties of pumping at work and the inconvenience of the current pumping technology greatly influence a woman's decision to continue to breastfeed. According to the Centers for Disease Control, 77 percent of mothers in the U.S. initiate breastfeeding, yet only 16.4 percent are exclusively breastfeeding by six months (49 percent still breastfeed at six months but not exclusively). According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics 70.5 percent of all mothers with children under 18 work and 57.7 percent of mothers with children under the age of 1 work. Given the high participation of women in the workforce, it is clear that in order to promote breastfeeding before and beyond six months we need to improve a mother's pumping experience at work.

I propose a total redevelopment of the breast pump. I dream of a system that would be wearable -- like a hi-tech bra -- was very silent, would not require taking any clothes off, was fast, hands free, and stored milk in such a way that I could just pull out a full cartridge from a belt pouch and place it in the fridge or cooler. I would be able to pump at my desk, with the door open. It would hook up to my car so I could pump while commuting. It would not require a lot of parts so these would not be inadvertently forgotten; it would beep if something was left behind. It would be easy to assemble and clean, dish washable and spill proof.

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The second challenge was transporting all the equipment; I had to carry my purse, lunch box and the heavy pump bag with all the tubing, cups, diaphragm membranes, cooler, etc. The weight and bulk made it hard to move, and I can't imagine commuting on public transport with all the cargo.

The fourth challenge was keeping together, functional and clean all the equipment required for pumping. This required a lot of prepping the night before and in the morning of. There are innumerable parts to most pumps, assembly, dis-assembly and cleaning are needed with each use. In the beginning, I found myself forgetting pieces of the pump at home and having to do a mad dash to the nearest Toys "R" Us to buy the missing pieces, then returning to work to pump with breasts engorged, hungry and patients waiting. It was crazy and pretty stressful.

NORMAN, OK--(Marketwired - November 21, 2014) - Heather McMillan Nakai does not mind going first.

Thanks to the traveling requirements that come with being a gaming attorney in Indian Country, she has had conversations with several facilities -- both Native and non-Native -- about securing pumping accommodations while on the road for work.

"Under the Affordable Care Act, the government considers individuals who rely on IHS as uninsured," said Cori Loomis, the Affordable Care Act educator for Crowe and Dunleavy, an Oklahoma City-based law firm that counts the community's urban Indian clinic among its clients. "Tribal members are exempt from (tax) penalties no matter what if they're uninsured, but without third party coverage, you might not necessarily have access to certain kinds of care in an area."

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To accommodate her, McMillan Nakai's office purchased a small refrigerator for breastfeeding employees. For now, that refrigerator stays in McMillan Nakai's office, along with a "Do Not Disturb" sign for her pumping breaks.

"That my employer was willing to provide a fridge and just let me use my office. That saved me a ton of time versus what previous co-workers have had to do, which involved going to one room to pump, then go to another place to wash out the pump parts and store their breast milk," she said. "It's saved my employer time and allowed me to be more efficient because I can work while I pump."

"It's been really interesting to see that tribal entities are already facing this and handling it," she said. "On a recent trip to one tribe's casino for a conference, they already had accommodations in place for their employees. They just let me use the green room like their employees do. They were not fazed at all when I asked about it."

Similar to McMillan Nakai's experience with another tribe's casino, Cherokee Nation Businesses has rooms set aside solely for lactating employees at its larger properties, both gaming and non-gaming.

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The economic engine of the country's largest tribe, CNB employs more than 7,000 people nationwide. The bulk of those jobs are based in or immediately adjacent to the tribe's 14-county jurisdictional area in northeastern Oklahoma, a state that prior to the Affordable Care Act's implementation did not require employers to provide pumping breaks and spaces.

Her employer is scheduled to move later this year to a larger facility, complete with a separate lactation room. The mini-fridge currently in McMillan Nakai's office will eventually rotate among other employees as needed.

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As per a 2010 amendment to the Fair Wage and Labor Standards Act passed https://insurancecoveredbreastpumps.com/ in conjunction with the passage of the Affordable Care Act, companies with at least 50 employees or more are now required to provide break time and a private place -- other than a bathroom stall -- for a nursing mother to pump breast milk until her baby's first birthday. Smaller companies may be exempt from the requirement, but only if they can show that making those accommodations would create an undue hardship.

However, for nursing Native moms, the provision is not quite as straightforward. Although citizens of federally-recognized tribes who solely rely on Indian Health Services without third-party coverage are eligible to receive an exemption from the Affordable Care Act's tax penalties, they are not necessarily entitled to all of the provisions that apply to people with outside insurance, whether that comes through work, Medicaid or the health insurance marketplace, including breast pumps.

A tribal gaming attorney living in Rockville, Md., and a member of the North Carolina-based Lumbee Tribe, McMillan Nakai gave birth to her daughter Haazbaa' in November 2013, making her the first person in her office to fall under its new lactation policies enacted after the Affordable Care Act was signed into law and upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court.

"Cherokee Nation Businesses strives to provide its employees with appropriate accommodations for breastfeeding," CNB communications director Amanda Clinton said. "Today, our two largest entertainment venues, Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Tulsa and Cherokee Casino & Hotel West Siloam Springs, offer private rooms dedicated to mothers who are pumping. Our corporate facility that houses many of our diversified businesses also has this accommodation. For Cherokee Nation Businesses properties on a smaller scale, management provides office space to those employees who need this privacy."

Workplace accommodations for breastfeeding may be meeting important needs for working moms, but other obstacles remain, such as the ACA's provisions regarding breast pumps. Under the law, unless it is a grandfathered plan, private health insurance providers must cover the cost of a hospital grade breast pump. Depending on an individual plan's language, that coverage could specifically mean either rental or purchase costs, a manual or electric pump or a single breast pump versus a double.

Despite the potential "awkward factor" associated with discussing the situation with her two male supervisors -- one a parent and one not -- McMillan Nakai knew early on in her pregnancy that she planned on breastfeeding and was going to do whatever it took to make that happen.



Before the amendment, only 13 states had laws requiring employers to allow pumping during breaks or to provide a place to pump. Only three of those states -- California, Hawaii and Oregon -- have codified penalties for employers who violate a worker's right to pump. Two additional states, Georgia and Oklahoma, had statutes that encourage workplace pumping but did not require employers to provide breaks or other forms of in-office support.