Our Commitment to Sustainability
A plain account of what we do, what we do not do, and why we will not dress any of it up.
Section 1
Where we are today
We are a van broker, not a manufacturer. We do not build vehicles, we do not run factories, and we do not control the carbon embedded in a new Transit or Vivaro when it rolls off the line. It would be dishonest to claim otherwise.
What we can control is smaller and sits in three places. The vans we actively promote to UK businesses. The way our own office in Porthcawl runs day to day. The lenders and partners we choose to work with. That is the honest scope of this page.
Section 2
Electric is a serious option for most fleets
For the majority of UK business users we speak to, an electric van now works on the numbers. Range on panel vans has moved past the point where a typical urban or regional route becomes a problem, and total running cost per mile on a depot-charged EV is consistently lower than diesel once you factor in fuel and servicing.
A growing share of our enquiries are now electric. We do not publish a percentage because the figure moves around with the model year and we would rather under-claim than inflate it. If you want to see the products we quote on, start with our electric vans page, or read the full electric van guide for range, charging and cost detail.
The caveat. Electric is not right for everyone yet. High-mileage long-distance work, remote sites without depot charging and certain payload-heavy duty cycles still favour diesel. We will tell you that when it applies to your operation.
Section 3
How our own operation runs
We are one office in Porthcawl, South Wales. Most of what we do is paper, phone calls and deliveries arranged with transport partners. Where we can keep the footprint low, we do.
- Finance paperwork is sent and signed electronically wherever the lender accepts it. Printing happens when the underwriter still requires wet ink and not before.
- Customer test drives use an electric van where stock and diary allow, so you get a realistic feel for range on your own route.
- We do not run unnecessary UK trips. Site visits happen when they are useful to the customer, not to justify travel.
- Office energy, waste and supplier choices sit with the wider Sion Jones group in Porthcawl. We will not pretend to run a standalone ESG programme we do not have.
Section 4
Helping you go greener
The place we can actually move the needle is helping a business switch vehicles when the numbers support it. These are the practical things we do on an EV enquiry.
- Reviewing your duty cycle. We look at daily mileage, route profile and overnight parking to check whether an EV genuinely suits the work before you sign anything.
- Modelling total cost of ownership against the diesel equivalent. Monthly rental or loan, fuel or electricity, servicing, tax. The full picture, not the brochure line.
- Supplying grant-eligible vehicles where they apply. See the plug-in grant and tax relief section of our guide for current figures.
- Introducing you to charge-point installers we have worked with before, so depot charging is sorted before the van arrives rather than after.
Honesty
What we will not claim
We are not carbon neutral.
We do not buy offsets.
We do not sell renewable-energy certificates.
Our contribution is helping more businesses switch to electric vehicles when the numbers genuinely work, and running our own operation as leanly as we can. That is it.
If a broker tells you their brokered vehicles are carbon neutral because they have bought offsets, ask them which scheme, which registry and on what basis. The answers are often thinner than the claim.
Thinking about an electric van for your business?
We will walk the numbers with you before you commit. No pressure, no pitch.