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Founder and Managing Director of Fleet Evolution and Co-Founder of Mercia Fleet Management, Andrew Leech, joins host Alex Wolfe on the Wolfe Power Club to unpack the realities of the UK’s electric vehicle transition from the front line of fleet management.

With responsibility for more than 1,600 vehicles, Andrew brings rare, lived experience of the highs and lows of the energy transition; including moving too early into green vehicles, navigating years of shifting political signals and helping customers adapt to rapid change in tax, technology and regulation.

The conversation explores whether electric vehicles have brought back the “glory days” of the company car, how benefit-in-kind tax has reshaped driver behaviour and which EVs dominated fleet sales in 2025. Andrew also shares what customers are really saying about range, charging costs and infrastructure as the UK falls short of its ZEV targets.

Fleet Evolution website: https://fleetevolution.com/

Mark Rober - Can You Fool A Self Driving Car (YouTube) clip: https://youtu.be/IQJL3htsDyQ?si=KiOLuas8oex38jgP

Andrew Leech has been around the fleet and employee benefits industry for over 26 years, from a career switch from finance to IT solution. For fleet, Andrew has transitioned to employee benefits and HR software and then an employee benefit centred around electric cars via a payroll deduction introducing EVs to SME’s who previously couldn’t offer salary sacrifice cars. Andrew's interest in electric cars is driven by personal experience, firstly as an asthmatic who realised when he moved to the countryside the improvement clean air can have on everyone's life; and then secondly as a former ‘petrol head’ who realised the experience that EVs offered. 

A regular speaker on the university circuit Andrew is an advocate of EVs, not because of the environmental benefits specifically, but moreso because of the performance and convenience.

#ElectricVehiclesUK, #EnergyTransition, #FleetManagement

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Recorded at Studio 55 - that has produced Breaking the Taboo and The ABTO Podcast

Chapters

• 0:00 Introduction
• 2:52 The Journey
• 7:26 Return of the Company Car
• 15:47 Top-Selling Vehicles in Fleet
• 21:58 ZEV Targets
• 35:49 Retail Pricing
• 43:19 Andrew on Driverless Cars
• 52:39 Careers in Automotive and Fleet
• 58:03 Andrew's Story to 1,600 Cars
• 1:07:51 What Government Must Do Next
• 1:10:04 Conclusion