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Tim Albertsen, CEO of ALD Automotive talks live to Asset Finance Connect about ALD’s acquisition of LeasePlan
Last week, ALD announced that it would acquire LeasePlan for €4.9 billion. ALD’s parent Société Générale will own 53% of the new company, LeasePlan shareholders just under 31%.
This Thursday, January 20th at 1pm Europe time; midday UK you can learn more about this acquisition by signing up for Asset Finance Connect’s webcast interview when content leader David Betteley will interview Tim Albertsen, CEO of ALD live online.
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Sign up now for this important webcast. It’s free to attend, open to all, and if you work in fleet, you should not miss it.
DriveElectric, Rivus Fleet Solutions, and Bynx will be joining the next Asset Finance Connect webcast to discuss how EVs are changing the role of fleet managers forever.
In this one hour event Jason Chamberlain from Rivus and Mike Potter from DriveElectric, two industry thought leaders on EVs will be providing their unique insight into the needs of UK corporates as they seek to transition to greener mobility solutions and will highlight the role for fleet management industry to ease that change.
Among the topics to be considered in the webcast will be:
Angela Montacute is joined by Chris Kirby, founder of Tomorrow’s Journey to discuss the evolution of subscription based products and hear first hand the opportunities and challenges implementing such models presents.
The conversation focuses on the practical problems and challenges of implementing car subscription models and some of the key aspects to building successful and scalable products. Chris also talks about how he sees subscription evolving over the coming years.
Tomorrow’s Journey is an innovative software company that is helping some of the world’s biggest automotive brands to launch scalable smart mobility business models quickly and cost effectively.
The latest Asset Finance Connect webcast features a follow-up interview with Richard Jones, MD of Motor Finance & Leasing, Lloyds Banking Group on rate-for-risk, a pricing model which they have used in the past, and are currently re-evaluating in a series of pilots with auto dealers in the UK.
“Rate for risk could have a bigger role in the [auto finance] market.” Jones told David Betteley, Asset Finance Connect’s auto finance community leader “But it changes the model. You’ve got to give the driver a sense of their credit-worthiness right at the start of the journey… If you’re a retailer it changes the way you advertise vehicles, and it changes the way you market.”
In-depth insights
60 minutes
Participants:
This week Boris Johnson has announced that he will ban the sale of ICE cars in the UK by 2030 and the sale of hybrids by 20351. At present however BEVs still represent only 7% of new vehicles sold in the UK1 and nearly half of UK consumers feel that Boris’ previous target date of 2035 was too early2. Business fleets however seem more willing to transition, with 30% of UK businesses already using EVs and 50% expecting to use them within the next few years3. Zenith’s total order book in June, for example, was expected to be 30% BEV. 3
Why the difference? There are many reasons including fleet companies focus on total cost of ownership which contrasts with consumers preoccupation with purchase price alone; the substantial reductions in benefit in kind available to business purchasers; and of course the deeper pockets of businesses over consumers to pay for BEVs which are currently substantially more expensive, with the cost of batteries being a large contributor4. BEV’s are also an opportunity for businesses to show off their green credentials5
The BVRLA’s recent plug-in pledge suggests that the industry sees an opportunity in the short-term to increase uptake and lead the charge6 but manufacturers will need to find ways to accelerate uptake among both consumers and businesses alike to meet increasingly challenging CO2 targets proposed in the EU7. OEMS vision for business growth post the transition may collide with fleet companies with increased focus on services.8
What is Miguel’s views on the opportunities and challenges faced by the industry as it manages this transition?
How will the economic downturn and BREXIT affect the speed of transition?
How will auto industry, serving both consumers and businesses change – and what is fleet’s likely role?
Where next? Will the industry become the true eco-warriors of the future adding value through by maximising car utilisation and its usage of data?
Background Reading
1 https://www.ft.com/content/5e9af60b-774b-4a72-8d06-d34b5192ffb4
5 https://www.theclimategroup.org/ev100-members
First shown May 14, 2020
120 minutes
In the second in a series of online seminars on the challenges facing the asset finance industry during the Coronavirus crisis, industry experts provide critical guidance on the key issue of Operations and Forbearance.
Experts provide their analysis on planning a return to market, while there is also expert insight on how regulators are expecting organisations to treat their good and bad customers through to bounce-back.
Expert witnesses
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