Financial services group ING is setting strict new guidelines for the lease cars made available to senior staff, the Financieele Dagblad reported on Wednesday.

The aim is to build up a sustainable fleet of leased cars driven by ING executives, says the paper, which has obtained a copy of a confidential document regulating the leased cars.

In particular, ING staffers favouring a hybrid car had better make sure their vehicle is at the charging station daily or face a €1,500 fine. ING frowns on people driving hybrid cars using only their petrol engines, the FD said.

Roughly 10% of ING’s 12,000 employees in the Netherlands qualify for a company car and the new regulations apply to all cars leased by the bank after October 1 of this year.

‘ING wants to make the transition towards a more climate-proof company. Therefore ING has committed itself to the use of cars which emit less than 105 grams of CO2 per kilometre by 2020,’ a spokesman said.