Select Car Leasing has joined forces with charge point mapping service Zap-Map, allowing its subscriber access to the latter’s navigation system.
The popular Zap-Map app lets users search for available EV charge points while viewing live availability information. It also helps you to plan journeys, pay for charging, and share updates with other EV drivers.
Now every customer that leases an electric vehicle with Select Car Leasing will automatically be handed three months free access to Zap-Map’s premium service, the company said. They can locate charge points using a variety of enhanced filters, such as ‘user rating’ and ‘multiple charger locations’, as well as adding unlimited vehicles to the app and saving unlimited route plans. They can also access in-car support, harnessed via Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, which means EV drivers can locate suitable charge points, view live charge point status, access route plans, and link to navigation apps for turn-by-turn directions – all while on the move.
“With Zap-Map, the stress of locating and paying for EV charging is completely erased,” said David Lewis, Head of Electric Vehicles & Energy at Select.
This month Select Car announced an expansion of its electric vehicle division, doubling the number of specialist staff with a primary focus on EVs as interest in green transport continues to soar, the company said.
“Leasing is a fantastic way to access an EV, so it’s great to see Select expanding its electric vehicle division,” said Melanie Shufflebotham, Co-founder & COO at Zap-Map. “EVs are really moving into the mass market now. With more and more drivers switching to an electric vehicle every month, all these new drivers will be looking for somewhere to charge, which is where Zap-Map comes in handy. Our focus is on making charging simple, and that’s exactly what this partnership between Select Car Leasing and Zap-Map helps to achieve.”
Overall, Select’s pure-electric new car sales now account for around a quarter (25%) of all vehicle sales at the company. Those reported sales are 75% ahead of the broader new car market, according to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders’ September data, with registrations for pure BEVs up to 14.5% year to date in 2022, the company said.
The Select Electric division has also launched an innovative online fuel calculator, which compares the yearly cost of filling-up a petrol or diesel car with charging an EV.
The tool works out an instant price comparison depending on the user’s mileage. If you cover around 10,000 miles in a year, the tool suggests you could save more than £1,000 per year – based on charging your electric vehicle, at home, at the new 34p Energy Price Guarantee rate, compared with a typical petrol or diesel car with a fuel efficiency of around 40 mpg.