This award will be presented to the leasing company with up to 20,000 vehicles that can demonstrate policies and an ethos focuses on sustainability, emissions-reduction and the transition to net zero.
2025 Winner: Athlon UK
Athlon showed a holistic approach to sustainable motoring and road safety. With over 60% of its fleet now BEV/PHEV, Athlon also offers complimentary EV charging at its Milton Keynes campus powered partly by solar energy. Other innovations include its EV Ready tool which helps drivers switch to EVs by assessing entire fleets using telematic data and offering free chargers in some cases. This award was well deserved!
Commended
PragmaCharge
Marshall Leasing
Grosvenor
2024 Winner: Octopus Electric Vehicles
Octopus Electric Vehicles is recognised for its tech-powered electric vehicle only salary sacrifice scheme. The company enjoys a 98% retention rate for customers and a 4.8-star Trustpilot rating. In 2024, it launched its EV saver home tariff, meaning drivers who lease a car from us get access to their own unique home energy tariff, giving them an even cheaper overnight charging rate, giving them even more savings to charge their car at home.
Commended
Grosvenor Leasing
Prohire Ltd
2023 Winner: Grosvenor Leasing
Grosvenor Leasing’s 0Zone EV transition consultancy service is guiding fleet customers to become some of the greenest in the country, while also ensuring its own fleet leads by example. By 2025, Grosvenor Leasing’s internal fleet will be completely emission-free. Already, its in-house fleet is 85 per cent electrified, with 60 per cent of vehicles fully electric. For customers, 0Zone’s whole life cost-based guidance has ensured more than 80 per cent of Grosvenor’s new car orders now having zero-emission capability, significantly higher than the leasing industry average, helping customers halve their overall CO2 emissions and cutting customer car fleet emissions below 70g/km on average. Several customer fleets are now fully zero-emission, helped by an extensive EV product range that can provide new and used leasing for electric cars and vans. Through Grosvenor’s innovative electric van switch programme, customers can source an ICE van on a flexible contract, then switch to an EV with free early termination when a suitable fully-electric van is offered by manufacturers. As well as its car salary sacrifice solution, Grosvenor has launched a salary sacrifice scheme for home chargers, delivering a low-cost solution whether drivers have a salary sacrifice car or not.
Commended
Prohire Limited
Lookers Vehicle Solutions
2022 Winner: LeasePlan UK
From 2,661 vehicles in 2021, the LeasePlan Flexible fleet has grown to 4,092 vehicles and is predicted to exceed 6,000 vehicles by end-2022 – a 125 per cent increase. Another new addition for LeasePlan is EV Salary Sacrifice, a new online portal that focuses on helping drivers transition to EVs through a dedicated hub and the ability to add a home ChargePoint, with the cost spread across the contract term. The past year has seen the launch of the EV Education Hub – an online resource providing an EV one-stop shop.
Commended
VWFS Fleet
Lookers Leasing
Ogilvie Fleet
ElectriX
2021 Winner: Lex Autolease
Commended
Tusker
Hitachi Capital Vehicle Solutions
LeasePlan UK
Grosvenor
2020 Winner: Grosvenor Leasing
2019 Winner: LeasePlan
LeasePlan boasts an impressive all-round service in the push to encourage the uptake of EVs, with internal and external educational and promotional campaigns, with four key elements. This has led their clients’ appetite for ULEVs to grow, with the number of EVs and PHEVs (Pron. FEVs) on fleet growing more than 35% year-on-year.
Commended
Tusker
Lex Autolease
Grosvenor
Hitachi
Daimler Fleet Management
2018 Winner: LeasePlan
LeasePlan’s goal is to reach net zero emissions by 2030. Its UK-based pure electric fleet has more than doubled (131.6%) in the past 12 months, contributing to a 77% growth in the take-up of battery EVs across LeasePlan. The average CO2 of vehicles currently in delivery is 106.2g/km for cars and 161.2g/km for vans. Among other initiatives, a ZEV ‘try-before-buy’ option is planned for clients in 2019.
Commended
Daimler Fleet Management
Drive Electric
Lex Autolease
Alphabet
Grosvenor Leasing
2017 Winner: Lex Autolease
Responsible for the fleet management of over 382,000 cars and vans in the UK, Lex Autolease has a history of promoting ultra-low and zero emission vehicles. As early adopters of alternatively fuelled vehicles from niche manufacturers such as Modec and Ashwoods, Lex’s “plug in” fleet has grown from three Nissan Leafs in Q1 2011 to over 10,000 vehicles. Traditionally fuelled cars average CO2 emissions of just 114g/km. Customers are continuously informed of the latest developments through guides and white papers, training sessions, customer meetings and on site roadshows. Lex recently helped BAE Systems replace a significant proportion of their diesel fleet at Portsmouth Naval Base with electric vans, with telematics helping to determine the number of electric vehicles that could be deployed (48 in total), the optimal number of charge points and the best locations for them. This all enabled BAE Systems to replace nearly 45% of their diesel fleet with pure EVs, with predicted cost savings of £360,000 over the next 2 years. Full charging solutions are offered via charge partner podPOINT.
Commended
Tusker
Grosvenor Leasing
2016 Winner: Alphabet
Almost 10 per cent of the 23,109 plug-in grant-eligible cars and vans registered in the first eight months of 2016 are funded by or leased from Alphabet. Last year its electric fleet grew by 385 per cent and in August this year reached a total of 5,085 EVs and PHEVs. Alphabet’s multi-user AlphaCity CarSharing vehicles will cover more than one million miles, with each car being shared by an average of 27 individual ‘mobility users’ via RFID cards. Improvements to AlphaCity include a zero emission Electric Vehicle version using the BMW i3. To better serve the 30 per cent of its customers that don’t have a dedicated fleet manager, Alphabet has developed a range of outsourced products and services which enable its customers to focus on their core business while delivering greater flexibility and more efficient mobility for their employees. The company has also gained an Investors in People Silver Award – one of the few to achieve this at the first time of application. Independent surveys recorded a 2.2 per cent increase in overall customer satisfaction and a 2.4 per cent increase in customer loyalty.
Commended
Fleetdrive Electric
Leaseplan/Automotive Leasing
2015 Winner: Automotive Leasing
Automotive Leasing has an all-encompassing “green” approach to the leasing of vehicles that also includes driver training, the introduction of a telematics system to influence driver behaviour and even a scheme that allows customers to use electric cars, free, for 6 months.
Commended
Alphabet
Lex Autolease
Fleetdrive Electric
Zenith
Leasedrive Group