Winner: e-car lease
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Rob and Sue King from e-car lease accept the Best Electric Vehicle Broker Award from award sponsor Duncan Chumley (centre) of Mycardirect.
About the winner
e-car lease is a family-run business created specifically to lease high quality all-electric cars to UK customers. The directors saw the increasing demand for electric vehicles (EVs) and created the separate e-car lease brand, building on 50 years of leasing experience from the original CarLease UK business. Based in Leigh near Manchester, the team are experts in EV leasing and the business has built a reputation for quality advice, competitive pricing, and specialist customer service.
What made e-car lease Best Electric Vehicle Broker?
The judges were impressed with the evident passion for electric vehicles at e-car lease which is driven from the top. The panel liked the customer focus, collaborative approach and informative website.
Key factors in the success of e-car lease are expertise and knowledge, combined with a customer centric way of working. A very strong approach towards the EV market as well as propositions across personal contract hire, business contract hire and salary sacrifice.
e-car lease stood out for demonstrating excellence across a number of key areas:
True passion for EVs
e-car lease was one of the first brokers to create a website dedicated to pure electric transport. The judges commented on founder Rob King’s passion for EVs which can be seen throughout the business. The company prides itself on ensuring its team are highly trained to ensure customers get the best possible EV advice. The panel also liked the fact that e-car lease ‘walks the talk’ – it offers employees an EV salary sacrifice scheme and has installed onsite charging.
Market leading approach
The panel applauded the creation of the EVC (Electric Vehicle Certificate) by e-car lease which is designed to reduce EV trepidation for both new and used car procurement. The document digitally collates all relevant stakeholders – motor insurance, charge point location, charge point installation, EV reviews plus key data and metrics. One judge called it ‘a milestone step in the EV leasing industry’. The judges also liked e-car lease’s collaborative approach, noting that the business offers its specialist EV skills and expertise to partner funders, suppliers as well as fellow brokers.
Highly informative website
The e-car lease website was designed to be an EV procurement resource unlike anything else available in the UK. The site offers guidance and tools for all aspects of the electric journey to ensure customers understand exactly how their EV will operate – including data on charging costs, seasonable range analysis and charging speeds. The panel was impressed with the site, calling it ‘one of the best and most informative websites to help customers make an informed transition’.
It means so much to the e-car lease team to be recognised as the EV Broker of the Year in 2023. Electric cars and vans are no longer a niche aspect of the automotive industry; they are a fundamental part of the UK’s retail and fleet demographic. Since we started our EV initiative almost eight years ago, our business has prioritised robust and comprehensible EV procurement, so that personal, business and salary sacrifice customers can transition to zero-emission transport with confidence. Our unique range of tools and guides, including our latest innovation the EVC (Electric Vehicle Certificate), are a testament to our dedication to our customers and to the contract hire and leasing market as a whole.
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Laura is a writer and marketing consultant for Broker News, with extensive automotive experience from senior marketing roles with RBS/Nat West, Lombard Vehicle Management and Unipart. She is also a self-confessed petrol-head.
