Arval Insights

Arval recently hosted a workshop examining “The Road to Zero-Emission Mobility for Employees” as part of the ground-breaking Movin’On initiative. Ronan Perrier, Head of Mobility for Corporates at Arval, provides his insight into some of the event’s highly significant findings…

Arval Mobility Consulting is being launched as a new answer to rapidly changing corporate mobility needs. It comes as an update of Arval’s successful SMaRT approach (Sustainable Mobility and Responsibility Targets), launched in 2018. Arval Mobility Consulting is a key element of the Arval Beyond strategy within the 360° Mobility offer, a five-year plan designed to enable Arval to become the industry leader in terms of sustainable mobility solutions.

As the global pandemic ground many industries to a halt and lessened the appeal of public transport, bicycles have experienced a renaissance.

Indeed, in 2020, EU bicycle sales grew 23%, and this growth is expected to continue. Europeans are expected to buy an extra 10 million bikes per year by 2030, a 47% increase from the annual number in 2019. To sustain the two-wheel momentum, €1 bn has been invested to create 2,300km of new bike lanes across the EU.

This article explores what these new trends mean for companies and looks at the perspectives of this growing sector.

Despite the health crisis and thanks to the quality of its services, its ability to react quickly and seize new opportunities, the resilience of its business and the solidity of the BNP Paribas Group, Arval Group’s leased fleet grew by 6.4% compared to the end of 2019, reaching 1,381,555 vehicles (+7.3% on an average basis in 2020).

At the beginning of 2020, when fleet manager’s interviews were conducted across Europe for the last Arval Mobility Observatory fleet Barometer, the main barrier against PHEV and BEV raised by companies that were not considering implementing these alternatives was the lack of public charging points. Moreover, 2020 saw a continuing trend across Europe of increasing electrification.

At the beginning of 2021, where do we stand regarding the public charging point’s situation?

Rueil-Malmaison, 2 March 2021 – Arval and ClimateSeed are joining forces in a worldwide environmental partnership. With this partnership, Arval will complete its offer to accompany its customers along the entire zero-carbon trajectory and will offer climate contributions through carbon reduction projects to those who are already engaged in a decarbonisation process at a company or fleet level.

The next stop in our World Mobility Tour is in Lisbon, the 2020 European Green Capital.

Our discussion with Miguel Gaspar, the Deputy Mayor with responsibility for Mobility and Safety, enables us to discover all the mobility aspects and the strategy of this city regarding the mobility topic.

Arval, a global leader in full-service vehicle leasing and sustainable mobility solutions, presents the 2020 edition of its annual CSR report in the frame of the new Arval Beyond strategy.

• Miguel Cabaça as Arval Spain General Manager
• Lakshmi Moorthy as Arval UK General Manager
• Luc Soriau as Arval LATAM Region General Manager
• Emilie Wirth as Arval Retail Director