The Sureserve Group has partnered with Octopus Energy to transition 600 business vehicles to electric in the next three years.
Sureserve employees will be offered home charging installations and the option to switch to an Octopus Energy smart tariff as part of the three-year contract. The tariff will enable Sureserve’s vans and cars to charge cost-efficiently when there is more green energy on the grid. This will provide six hours of super plunge pricing overnight with a saving of 73% compared to current fixed domestic energy tariff options in the market. This also enables Octopus to offer a cheaper daytime rate for drivers from value obtained by this dynamic charging.
Octopus will provide Sureserve with access to the Electric Juice Network, Octopus’s growing roaming platform that allows fleets to access thousands of charge points across the country.
Sureserve’s fleet managers will be given a fleet dashboard platform by Octopus, which is powered by data from Ohme’s intelligent chargers installed at driver homes. It consolidates the cost of charging on workplace, home and public chargers. It can send payments through payroll back to the driver, so that Sureserve can reimburse drivers for the business miles that they are doing.
Peter Smith, Interim Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer at Sureserve, said: “We continue to enjoy a fantastic partnership with Octopus when it comes to the Group’s energy needs. The delivery of this new project is a very exciting addition to the scope of our sustainable operations, with very real and direct benefits to our businesses, our people, our clients and their customers, and of course the environment. It’s crucial to find the right partner when supporting our long-term sustainable commitments, and we look forward to working closely with Octopus to implement further improvements in the future.”
