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Green cars are coming of age and with more and more people considering a hybrid or electric car for their next new vehicle, there’s never been a better time to make the switch.

Whatever electric or hybrid car lease deals you are looking for, at Select Car Leasing we have the very best green car special offers to meet your needs.

We have all leading makes and models including BMW, Nissan, Kia, Mercedes, Porsche, Audi, Jaguar, Tesla, Toyota, Hyundai, Renault, Mini, Polestar and Volkswagen and offer extensive choice across all body types, including the latest city cars, saloons, SUVs and estates.

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Understanding Different Electric Car Types

100% Electric (BEV)

Pure electric cars, known as Battery Electric Vehicles or BEVs, are powered just by a large battery and an electric motor – no internal combustion engine at all. They enjoy zero CO2 emissions and don’t pollute the environment. Their battery-based technology means they are the cheapest cars to run.

Plug-in Hybrid (PHEV)

Like a 100% electric BEV, a Plug-in Hybrid (PHEV) also needs to be plugged in to charge its medium-sized battery. However, PHEVs have a traditional petrol or diesel engine as well. Typically the first 20-40 miles in a PHEV are battery only – then the petrol/diesel engine takes over for longer trips.

Conventional Hybrid (HEV)

As with a PHEV, conventional Hybrid Electric Vehicles (HEVs) have both a battery and a petrol/diesel engine. The battery in a HEV is very small and you can’t plug it in. It can only power the car for short distances at low speeds. In a HEV, you will be using the petrol/diesel engine for most of the time.

Why choose an electric or hybrid lease?

Electric or hybrid vehicles are often more expensive to buy than their petrol or diesel equivalents. Leasing, however, offers a decidedly affordable gateway to being able to drive a green vehicle and at the same time take advantage of the many other benefits of leasing green, including:

  • Lower initial and monthly costs
  • Reduced on-road running costs
  • Lower fuel bills, especially with 100% electric vehicles
  • No risk of depreciation
  • Hassle-free motoring
  • Drive the latest technology
  • Tax incentives, e.g. 2% Benefit in Kind (BiK) tax until 2024/25
  • Save up to 40% off your lease payments via a Salary Sacrifice scheme

Charging Your Car

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Electric Car Range

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EV Charging Costs

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Latest EV News

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Helpful questions about electric vehicle leasing

If you have off-street parking, you can have a dedicated charging point installed in your garage or on an external wall. This will allow you to charge your car at a fast rate and safely.

Alternatively, you can simply plug your electric car lead into any standard 3-pin socket at home, just as you would the vacuum cleaner or TV. However, it’s worth bearing in mind that this method of charging is slow and not as secure as a professionally installed EV charger.

As long as your electric car can be plugged in to charge, you have the potential to benefit from low-cost motoring in an EV.

The biggest savings come from fully electric cars known as BEVs. If you can charge at home, you can reduce your cost per mile significantly. Try our Fuel Cost Calculator to see typical average savings when switching from a combustion-based car to an electric car.

The next biggest fuel savings can be achieved in plug-in hybrids (PHEVs) which have a smaller battery, plus a petrol or diesel engine. However, you have to be smart and pro-active to lower your fuel costs in a PHEV.

Your PHEV battery may be full of cheap electricity in the morning if you charge at home, but the battery-only range is typically 20-40 miles. If you don’t recharge your battery every night, you will find yourself driving on more expensive petrol or diesel all of the time.

Hybrids which you can’t plug in, known as HEVs or self-charging hybrids, can’t benefit from cheap electricity. You will be paying high petrol / diesel pump prices as usual.

If you have a suitable garage or driveaway, most EV drivers will charge their cars at home overnight on an off-peak tariff. This is the way to maximise your ‘fuel’ savings. If you can't charge at home, it's still possible to lease an electric car and charge up in public effectively.

If you are out and about, there are now plenty of places for a quick charging top-up. For example, new charging points are being installed all the time at supermarkets, restaurants, shopping centres, gyms, carparks, B&Bs, hotels, etc. Some of these ‘destination’ chargers are free; with others you have to pay for the time you charge.

For longer trips, where the range of your electric car is not enough to get you there in one go, you can stop at motorway service stations and other convenient locations to charge. These charging points are heavy-duty and known as ‘rapid chargers’. Generally you charge for 20-45 minutes and then get back on the road.

Rapid charging stations are run by a variety of national networks including Instavolt, Tesla, Fastned, Gridserve, BP Pulse, Ionity and Osprey. Many now have contactless payment, making the whole process very straightforward. You can find your nearest public charging point via this helpful map: https://www.zap-map.com/live/.

Nearly all modern electric cars now come with batteries that will comfortably outlast the useful lifetime of the car itself. The batteries will suffer some degradation over time – in other words, your range when you first get the car will be less than after a few years of driving.

The only serious problem that electric cars can run into is if the battery needs replacing, but this is now very rare. For complete peace of mind, the opportunity to avoid the cost of a replacement battery is a significant benefit of leasing a brand-new electric car (compared with buying).

Given that all our contracts include the manufacturer’s full warranty, even if the worst did happen and the battery needed replacing, you would be covered under warranty and the battery replaced free of charge. Electric car battery warranties are typically for 8 years.

Leasing a green vehicle can be both a significantly lower risk and lighter-on-the-pocket option than buying. Because the green car phenomenon has only taken root in the last few years, just how these vehicles will hold their value remains somewhat unknown. With leasing, however, this risk is removed because at the end of your contract the market value is not your concern. You simply hand back the keys and are free to select and drive your next new green car with all the very latest features on offer at that point.

Moreover, leasing green also means you’ll always be driving a brand-new car with a brand-new battery, so the threat of any critical faults is highly unlikely. In addition, if you lease, you’ll benefit from the sheer speed of innovation inherent in the EV car market, meaning you won’t be left with an out-dated model that has been superseded by better technology.

Fully electric cars (BEVs) typically have a battery range of between 175 to 400 miles, depending on which model you choose. So if your daily commute is less than 100 miles, any modern EV will meet your needs with room to spare. For those longer trips – where your car’s maximum range on a single charge is less than your trip distance – you will need to stop and charge.

In a Plug-in Hybrid (PHEV), which has both a battery and a petrol/diesel engine, you can travel the first 20-40 miles or so running on battery power alone. After that the internal combustion engine takes over and you complete your journey burning petrol or diesel. Don’t forget to charge your PHEV battery at home each night to enjoy those initial, battery-only, emissions-free miles every day.

All cars, whether electric or otherwise, have to be built in factories using raw materials. As such, they all come with an ‘embodied carbon’ footprint. In other words, CO2 has been emitted during the manufacturing process. Battery electric cars come out of the factory with a higher carbon footprint than traditional international combustion engine cars. This is due to the lithium-ion batteries that power EVs. However, for every month of driving on electricity – rather than petrol or diesel – you ‘repay’ this carbon debt.

Once the whole carbon deficit has been paid back, your electric car is then much more environmentally friendly than a petrol or diesel car. You can speed up this carbon repayment process by charging your car with electricity from renewable sources. Either have solar panels installed at home, or choose a 100% green tariff from your electricity supplier, or do both.

The government used to subsidise the cost of fully electric cars (BEVs) by £1,500. This was for all BEVs under £32,000. This grant has now been removed for cars, but does still apply to wheelchair accessible vehicles, motorcycles, mopeds, small vans, large vans, taxis, small trucks and large trucks.

If you have a BEV as a company car, there is 2% Benefit in Kind (BiK) tax until the 2024/25 tax year. The rate then goes up to 3% in 2025/26, 4% in 2026/27, and 5% in 2027/28.

No wonder electric cars are now becoming very popular company car leases. Fully electric cars pay no road tax and can access Ultra Low Emission Zones (ULEZ) for free. There are even more financial and tax advantages for EVs – speak to one of our consultants for further details.

There are many advantages to leasing an electric car. First, you get to drive a brand new, environmentally-friendly car. Second, as electric cars are developing so fast, you always have the latest EV technology, coupled with better range, safety, and performance. Third, an electric car lease removes any concerns over reliability and servicing associated with older cars. Fourth, you enjoy the peace of mind from fixed monthly payments and the ability to hand your car back – hassle free – at the end of the contract and move on to the latest electric car model.

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Growth of Electric and Hybrid Cars

Demand for electric and hybrid cars has surged in recent months. Data from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) show pure battery electric (BEV) registrations in the UK were up by 38% from January to November 2022 compared to the year before. Plug-in Hybrid (PHEVs) and BEVs together represented over 1 in 5 of all car registrations during the same period. By contrast, Diesel cars were down by 39.5% and Petrol down by 11.1%.

There are now already over 70 pure electric models to choose from, with many more coming this year and next. For example, Tesla has recently launched the exciting Model Y and Nissan has brought out its brand new Ariya model. Ford has an electric version of the Mustang in the form of the Mach-E, and Renault has released the electrified Megane E-Tech.

Other recent models include the Hyundai Ioniq 6, MG4 EVKia EV6, BMW iX1, Volvo EX90, and the Mercedes-Benz EQE.

2022 was the breakthrough year for electric and hybrid cars in terms of innovation, sheer choice being offered, and take-up by the public. Now in 2023, brand-new EVs are a genuinely viable motoring option, offering long range vehicles and low-cost charging. And lease prices can be more affordable than you might think.

So, in summary, there’s never been a better time to make the switch to a green vehicle and benefit not only from the environmental advantages they offer, but also from low running costs and a superb driving experience.