Pictured above from left; Pete Curtis, Group Services Support Manager at Briggs & Forrester; Tim Cunningham, Managing Director at Briggs & Forrester; Dan Faulkner, Corporate Business Development Manager at Lex Autolease; Paul Burton, Group CEO at Briggs & Forrester
THE leasing company, Lex Autolease, has been signed up by Briggs & Forrester to provide an electric van and car fleet as the building services installations company moves to reduce its carbon footprint.
Switching to a green fleet provider is a major step towards the £260 million annual turnover company’s aim to become a more sustainable business and reduce the environmental impact footprint of the Group and its employees based in premises across the country.
Lloyds Banking Group owned Lex Autolease has been selected as Briggs & Forrester’s partner to provide a fully comprehensive service offering a range of zero emission to low emission vehicles to its employees. These include electric vehicles, plug-in hybrid and traditional hybrid vehicles.
Lex Autolease, the UK’s largest fleet leasing company, says it is focusing the company lease business on offering the best available mix of manufacturers and vehicles to provide improved running costs and the added benefit of lower carbon emissions.
Why Would Your SME Fleet Change To Greener Vehicles?
Apart from the obvious benefits of tackling climate change and local air quality, zero and ultra low emission vehicles offer a variety of business and driver benefits. These include lower operating costs and reduced driver benefit in kind company car taxation.
We have put together an example to give you an idea. They are based on a whole life cost – taking into account such items as running costs, maintenance and tax reductions – rather than just the headline lease rental. The driver’s BIK is averaged over three years.
As you can see in the example below, the more expensive Tesla is better overall on whole life costs and substantially better on driver BIK than the traditionally fuelled Audi.
Electric Vehicle Versus Traditional Diesel
Tesla Model 3 Standard Plus
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P11D Value £43,490
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Fuel Electric
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CO2 0g/km
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True Monthly Cost £617
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Driver Average BIK £14
Audi A4 30 TDI Black Edition
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P11D Value £38,815
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Fuel Diesel
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CO2 145g/km
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True Monthly Cost £673
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Driver Average BIK £474
Source: Gensen, based on a 36 month/ 20,000 miles per annum lease on a 3+ 36 profile with 10,000 business miles per annum.
The 2030 Ban On Petrol And Diesel Vehicles
Dan Faulkner, Corporate Business Development Manager at Lex Autolease said the company is seeing many businesses explore the option of adding EVs to their policies.
“The Government’s recent announcement to bring forward the ban on petrol and diesel vehicles to 2030 will no doubt fuel the switch for many. That deadline will come around particularly quickly for businesses with large fleets of traditionally-fuelled cars and vans. Briggs & Forrester were ahead of the game, and we’ve been able to work with them to develop a solution that ensures their drivers have access to green vehicles that suit their needs.”
The Group says it will be making an initial saving of 1,702 tonnes of carbon per annum in reduced vehicle CO2 emissions. This figure will improve year on year as the existing fleet is converted to electric, plug-in hybrid and traditional hybrid vehicles.
Briggs & Forrester Group CEO, Paul Burton, said:
“We have been working to improve our company fleet for some time and are proud that we have been able to launch this year. We have installed charging points at our head office with the aim to roll this out to our 10 regional offices across the UK.”
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