Select Car Leasing has joined forces with Zap-Map, the charge point mapping service, to make driving an electric vehicle (EV) even more accessible.

Select Car Leasing has joined forces with Zap-Map, the charge point mapping service, to make driving an electric vehicle (EV) even more accessible.

The Zap-Map app lets users search for available EV charge points while viewing live availability information. It also helps you to plan journeys, pay for charging, and share updates with other EV drivers.

Now every customer that leases an electric vehicle with Select Car Leasing will automatically be handed three months free access to Zap-Map’s ‘Premium’ service.

Zap-Map’s Premium package boasts a number of enhanced features that users cannot access with the no-cost version of Zap-Map.

They include the ability to home-in on charge points using a variety of enhanced filters, such as ‘user rating’ and ‘multiple charger locations’, as well as adding unlimited vehicles to the app and saving unlimited route plans.

Zap-Map Premium users also enjoy in-car support, harnessed via Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, which means EV drivers can locate suitable charge points, view live charge point status, access route plans, and link to navigation apps for turn-by-turn directions – all whilst on the move.

David Lewis, head of electric vehicles & energy at Select, says he’s delighted to partner with Zap-Map, a platform on a mission to ‘accelerate the shift to electric vehicles’ and ‘help the drive towards zero carbon mobility’.

Lewis says: “Select Car Leasing is fully behind the electric revolution, as we help customers transition from traditionally-fuelled cars and vans to electrified models, so we’re pleased to partner with a platform that really shares our ambitions.

“We want to make driving an EV not just accessible and attainable, but also enjoyable and hassle-free.

“And with Zap-Map, the stress of locating and paying for EV charging is completely erased.