Holly McPhee from Scottish Water’s fleet team, said: “We found that a number of companies in the UK were offering their employees salary sacrifice car schemes and with the ethos of our movement to net zero, we were keen to work with our reward partner, Reward Gateway, and Tusker, to offer an affordable route to EV motoring to as many of our employees as possible.”
Employees can drive insured and maintained electric cars for a fixed monthly cost that’s taken from their salary, before tax and national insurance contributions are calculated.
Tusker’s research highlights that motorists are enthusiastic about a switch to EVs, however, one of the biggest hurdles was revealed to be the purchase price.
The scheme provides access to compact city cars to family SUVs capable of traveling long distances between charges. Tusker is also interested in helping those transitioning from combustion to electric with helpful tools such as an online charging point locator and a journey cost calculator.
Alison Argall, business development director at Tusker, said: “We’re seeing more and more businesses with net zero targets working with us to move their employees into zero-emission vehicles – the car scheme can help with removing large amounts of emissions from the car parks of organisations, rather than just those in company cars, so it’s an easy win.”