Low-emission zone
The Greater Paris low-emission zone keeps tightening its Crit'Air rules. A cargo bike, classified as a cycle, rides freely with no permit to request.
Electric cargo bike fleets
Greater Paris
Greater Paris
Urban rounds with no diesel, no registration, no upfront investment.
Wander Fleet equips your teams with Tern electric cargo bikes, as company bikes or service bikes, financed through a lease with a finance company separate from Wander. A predictable monthly fee, vehicles that stay low-emission-zone compliant for good, and a turnkey rollout.
- Zero cash outlay to start
- Free to ride in the low-emission zone
- Preventive maintenance scheduled
200 kg
Payload
No limits
Low-emission zone
Not required
Registration
1 %
Residual value
Financing provided by a leasing company
The urban last mile is changing its rules.
Traffic restrictions, fuel costs, nowhere to park, ESG expectations: the combustion van is becoming a liability in the city core. The electric cargo bike answers all four at once.
Costs that pile up
Fuel, maintenance, parking, annual emissions taxes: an urban van is expensive year after year. The cargo bike removes most of it.
Time lost in the city
Congestion, hunting for a spot, reversing. In dense areas the cargo bike slips through and parks right at the customer's door.
ESG expectations
Carbon footprint, scope 3, client and talent expectations. A bike fleet is a clear, measurable signal.
A turnkey fleet, with no cash tied up.
Wander Fleet selects the bikes, introduces your request to leasing or finance-lease companies and handles the rollout follow-up. You pay a monthly rental, you ride.
The right bikes for your missions
Tern electric cargo bikes, sized to your loads, distances and terrain. Up to 200 kg of payload.
Negotiated financing
We introduce you to leasing or finance-lease companies. A fixed monthly fee booked as an expense, with a 1% residual value at the end of the contract.
Service over time
We organise preventive maintenance with specialist workshops, track the service and battery schedule, and support the rollout. Our role: keeping the fleet on the road.
Leasing, explained simply.
You don't buy the bikes: a leasing or finance-lease company acquires them and rents them to you with a purchase option. Wander Fleet orchestrates the whole thing as a business introducer and service partner.
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We size it
Audit of your rounds and loads, model selection. Cost assumptions can be explored with the site's public simulators.
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The finance company funds
The leasing company buys the fleet and sets up the lease-with-purchase-option contract in your name.
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You deploy
Delivery, team onboarding, accessories and maintenance. The fleet rolls.
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You decide at the end
Exercise the option at 1% residual value, renew, or hand back. You stay in control.
Three key financial benefits. No cash outlay to acquire. Monthly rental booked as an expense; note that in France, VAT on bicycle rentals is not recoverable by default, apart from specific configurations to be confirmed with your accountant. No exposure to equipment depreciation thanks to the 1% residual value.
Cargo bikes built for intensive professional use.
We distribute the Tern cargo range, a benchmark in professional longtails: Bosch motor, hydraulic braking, a central kickstand stable even when loaded. Pedal-assist bikes limited to 25 km/h, classified as cycles, with no registration or licence.
The fleet workhorse
Tern GSD S10
The versatile compact longtail. Ideal for last-mile delivery, technical services and everyday urban logistics.
- Payload200 kg
- MotorBosch Performance Line CX
- TransmissionShimano Deore 10 v.
- BrakesMagura MT5 hydrauliques
Heavy daily use
Tern GSD R14
The same base, with the Rohloff internal hub transmission: near-zero maintenance, longer life. The choice when you manage total cost over the long run.
- Payload200 kg
- MotorBosch Performance Line CX
- TransmissionRohloff 14 v. à moyeu
- MaintenanceNear-zero
Structural specifications as published by the manufacturer. The exact model, configuration and price are confirmed in the personalised study. Other models in the Tern range (HSD, Quick Haul, Orox) are available as needed.
What the fleet changes, depending on your role.
Finance
A predictable monthly cost booked as an expense, nothing tied up, no depreciation to carry. Total urban running cost collapses against a combustion van.
Logistics
In dense areas the cargo bike makes more stops per hour than a van and parks instantly. No low-emission-zone pass, no exemption to request.
ESG
No direct emissions in use and a carbon footprint far below a diesel van over the usage cycle, according to Ademe studies. A measurable effect on scope 3.
Human resources
The French sustainable mobility allowance complements the fleet: it compensates, up to €600 per year free of charges, employees who commute on their own bike. A fleet provided by the employer does not qualify: the two schemes add up within a clear mobility policy.
Operations
Supported rollout, preventive maintenance organised with third-party workshops, service and battery schedule tracked. Fleet availability is monitored, not endured.
Executive management
A decision that aligns costs, regulatory compliance, brand image and employer appeal. A single point of contact to run it.
What is your question?
Each tool on this site answers one question, and one only. Tell us yours.
You are the employer.
- I want to shrink my car or van fleet: how much do I save?
- No downsizing: what does a fleet cost, full stop?
- How many bikes do I need?
- Does a company bike cost more or less than a pay rise?(page in French)
- An employee prefers to buy their own bike: grants, allowance, payback?(page in French)
You are the employee.
- I am offered a company bike: what is it worth to me? (page in French)
- I want to buy my own bike: what will it cost me? (page in French)
- What mobility allowance am I entitled to? (page in French)
And in carbon terms? The follow-up question, common to every answer (page in French).
A ballpark figure in seconds.
Enter how many urban combustion vans you plan to replace. You get an indicative range; the personalised study refines it on your real data.
Estimated fleet size
3
cargo bikes
Indicative saving over 3 years
120 000 €
vs an equivalent combustion fleet
And in carbon terms? (page in French)
Strictly indicative estimate, based on orders of magnitude for urban total cost of ownership (acquisition, energy, maintenance, insurance, taxes, parking). It is neither a quote nor a commitment. Only the personalised study, confirmed with your accountant, is binding.
Let's talk about your fleet
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Tell us about your rounds in a few words. We come back with a fleet proposal and the financing options; pricing comes from the finance provider.
- Reply within 2 business days
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contact@wander-fleet.parisUnderstand before you decide
Seven costed and sourced files, plus one comparison tool, on the questions most often put to us by company directors, finance departments and HR departments.
These eight pages are published in French. They rest on French legal texts and French market records.
The French sustainable mobility allowance for a private employer: what it covers, what it does not
The French sustainable mobility allowance is often presented as the way to finance a company bike fleet. It is not. It is an optional and capped payment, made to an employee who incurs costs with their own cycle.
(page in French)
Comparing the full cost of a cargo bike fleet and of light commercial vehicles
A finance director does not need a cost per kilometre, they need a method they can redo with their own figures. This page sets out which cost items to compare between a fleet of electric cargo bikes and light commercial vehicles in the dense Paris region.
(page in French)
Low-emission zone, ZTL, Paris Respire: what actually applies to a company van
As at 26 July 2026, a company light commercial vehicle driving in Paris and in the Greater Paris metropolitan area comes under several sets of rules that are neither at the same stage nor attended by the same consequences.
(page in French)
Company bike: benefit in kind, social security treatment and salary conversion
What a bike made available to an employee costs in social security terms, what the French social security official bulletin tolerates, and why the German salary conversion scheme has no secure equivalent under French law.
(page in French)
Grants for electric cargo bikes for an Île-de-France company
Scheme by scheme, with its source and its date: which are open to a legal entity, which are closed, and why lease financing rules some of them out.
(page in French)
Professional electric cargo bikes in Paris and Île-de-France
For which trades the substitution for a light commercial vehicle is documented, for which it is not, and what the geography of the Paris region actually changes.
(page in French)
Folding and compact electric cargo bikes: what actually folds
Real footprint, fitting in a lift, bike storage room and parking quotas: what compacting changes, and what it does not.
(page in French)
Company bike or pay rise: the comparison tool
What the pay rise that would give the employee the same immediate gain as a company bike costs after corporate tax. Three profiles, from clerical staff to management.
(page in French)
What companies ask us.
Do we need a licence or registration?
No. The cargo bikes we distribute are pedal-assist bikes limited to 25 km/h, classified as cycles under the Highway Code. No licence, no registration, no compulsory motor-vehicle insurance (professional liability insurance is still recommended).
Are we affected by low-emission-zone restrictions?
No. As they are classified as cycles, the bikes have no Crit'Air sticker and are subject to no restriction in the Greater Paris low-emission zone. They ride at any hour, with no zone pass or exemption to request.
Do we buy the bikes?
No, unless you want to. The standard scheme is leasing: a finance company acquires the fleet and rents it to you with a purchase option. You pay a monthly fee, with no cash tied up. Wander Fleet is a business introducer and is not the finance provider.
How much can a cargo bike carry?
Tern GSD models take up to 200 kg of total payload (rider, accessories and load included). Enough to cover the vast majority of urban delivery and technical-service rounds.
What about maintenance?
We organise it as service partner: preventive maintenance scheduled with specialist workshops, service and battery calendar tracked. The work itself is carried out by third-party workshops; the exact scope is set out in the proposal.
Do you operate outside Greater Paris?
Our rollout is focused on the Greater Paris region. For a project elsewhere, get in touch: we look at each request case by case.
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