Renault has teamed up with ALD Automotive and Arval to investgate and develop lease deals and corporate pricing for the carmaker's new electric vehicles.

The agreement with ALD Automotive provides support for Renault to get its electric vehicles into ALD customers' corporate vehicle fleets in Europe from 2011.

It will research the appropriate pricing of electric vehicle destined for use by fleets.

Gianluca Soma, chief executive of ALD Automotive, said it will enable ALD to "bring the management of corporate vehicle fleets towards the management of completely environmentally friendly vehicles.”

A complete range of electric vehicles will be
available from 2011.

“The features of electric vehicles meet companies specific needs in terms of their cost of use and their environmental friendliness," added Uwe Hochgeschurtz, Renault’s Company Division director.

Arval and Renault have also confirmed a partnership in electric cars that will see Arval - Renault’s leading full service leasing partner in Europe - establish new full service
leasing offers adapted to electric vehicles.

Hochgeschurtz said: “We are convinced that our partnership with Arval will enable us to take the real ecological and economic leap that we are aiming for with our Renault eco² signature.”
 

Teams from both Renault and Arval will develop new lease offers.

According to Laurent Tréca, chairman and CEO of Arval, “Arval has been interested in alternative solutions to “all petrol” for a long time.

"The determination with which Renault,
a leading volume car manufacturer, is working on this, considerably improves the likelihood of seeing electric vehicles as a credible alternative to the traditional petrol engine.”