Chris Chandler is Principal Consultant at Lex Autolease and the electrification SME across all three Lloyds Banking Group motor brands: Lex Autolease on the B2B side, Tusker in salary sacrifice (22,000 vehicles at acquisition, 100,000 the week we recorded), and Black Horse in retail finance. Between leasing and salary sacrifice, that's a serious chunk of the EVs on British roads.

Paul and JC get into:

  • Why cars sprinted and vans crawled - benefit-in-kind versus a purely transactional purchase, and why commercial vehicles are far less price elastic than company cars
  • The moment the tax went up and "the tap just turned off" - then came back down and switched on again
  • Why converted diesel platforms were never going to cut it, and what changes when a van is engineered electric from the ground up
  • Charging that should just work: plug in, it charges, no apps, no cards, no accounts
  • V2G, home solar and batteries, and why a leasing company is now asking customers what's behind the wall socket
  • Designing CO2-based company car tax in 1999, and why CO2 beat the other 18 candidates on the list
  • Biodiesel, waxing fuel, bacterial growth, and the argument for a 5% blend across everything rather than 67% in a handful of refuse trucks

Chris Chandler on LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-chandler-756b9813/

Lex Autolease:
https://www.lexautolease.co.uk

Lex are principal sponsors of the Greenfleet EV Rally. 

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