Meryem Brassington, electrification propositions lead at Lex Autolease on the end of year EV figures
2022 Looks Like A Bumpy Ride IT’S quite a thing when Leasing.com reports that pure electric car enquiries rose 83% during Q3 versus Q2, and yet Suzuki is having to import part-built cars. According to AM Online, the Suzuki importer is final-assembling 4000 vehicles at Bristol docks with items sourced in the UK. More disturbingly, Suzuki’s Dale Wyatt reckons we’ll have to look to…
Lex Autolease adds its backing to Broker News A BIG welcome to Lex Autolease. The largest funder in the UK is adding its support to Broker News as we continue to champion the leasing broker sector. To start us off there is an insightful feature written by Paul Sperring, fraud manager at Lloyds Banking Group, on know your customer: real or impersonator? It’s an important read. Congratulations…
OVER the last 18 months there has been a significant increase in the instances of impersonation fraud against financial institutions including those within the motor finance industry, writes Paul Sperring, fraud manager at Lloyds Banking Group. As a business, Lex Autolease has been proactively engaged to protect the business against fraudsters, including organised crime groups committing identity fraud. Since the beginning of…
LEX Autolease is supporting mapping and analytics company Esri UK with its drive to reduce overall company vehicle emissions by launching a new ultra low-emission vehicle salary sacrifice scheme. Available for the firm’s 400 employees, Esri UK works with a wide range of organisations in both the public and private sector – including Vodafone, Scottish Water and the National Trust – with…
Tesla tops June, as Lex Autolease says momentum is beginning to build HOW the pandemic is changing the face of vehicle registrations. Electric cars continue to accelerate, with Tesla topping the SMMT’s June charts, and battery electric vehicles outselling diesels. Meryem Brassington, electrification propositions lead at Lex Autolease, reflecting on the figures, said: “Momentum is beginning to build along the road to…
HALF of UK motorists expect to be driving an electric vehicle (EV) in the next decade, as 49% of respondents to a study by Lloyds Banking Group shows an increase in interest, thanks to environmental improvements seen during the global pandemic. No doubt influenced by this, almost a third (32%) of drivers consider that the sustainability of their transport has increased in…
The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak, today froze fuel duty at its current rate (03 March 2021). The freeze will help drivers during the recovery post-pandemic as they start returning to work, with many likely to favour personal transport over using public transport, especially as fuel prices have been creeping upwards. The RAC’s most recent fuel report said that that fuel…