Volkswagen Group UK and Ovo extend benefits to fleet drivers

Volkswagen Group UK is extending the benefits of a partnership with energy experts Ovo to company car and salary sacrifice customers. 

Vehicles sourced from January 1 from any of the Volkswagen Group brands - Audi, Cupra, Škoda, Volkswagen Passenger Cars and Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles – can include Ovo’s ‘Charge Anytime’ add-on, which offers credits to the equivalent of 2,000 free electric miles on sign-up and anniversary bonuses of 1,000 free electric miles per year for the next three years. 

Under the agreement with Ovo, Volkswagen Group customers can charge for 7p/kWh at home at any time of the day or night when smart charging. 

The Charge Anytime add-on powered by Kaluza’s smart software works by automatically enabling charging when carbon emissions and prices are lower. 

By extending its Ovo partnership to cover company car and salary sacrifice customers as well as private retail buyers, Volkswagen Group says it is recognising and supporting the significant number of fleet customers who acquire electric vehicles (EVs). 

Ovo’s director of EVs, Alex Thwaites, said: ‘'Together, with Volkswagen Group, we are rewarding customers for making the switch to an EV. 

“We look forward to extending our market-leading Charge Anytime to fleet drivers and helping more people on their decarbonisation journey, all while cutting costs.” 

Head of group fleet and insight operations for Volkswagen Group UK, Iker Lazzari, added: “I’m really pleased we’re now able to offer fleet drivers the same convenient EV package as retail buyers by extending the Ovo energy partnership agreement to cover company car and salary sacrifice customers. 

“Free miles, anniversary bonuses and access to one single energy cost are new and simple ways in which we can show our commitment to electrification and, importantly, to making the switch to EV both easy and enjoyable.”