A collaboration between fuel-card company Allstar and The Electric Car Scheme, a firm that provides Salary Sacrifice cars to corporate customers, could save drivers up to £1,000 per year.
The deal has produced a programme called The Charge Scheme, which allows company-car drivers to use Salary Sacrifice to offset some of their personal charging costs by sacrificing their gross, rather than net, salary when paying for electricity used for personal trips with their company cars.
This brings savings of 20-50% on personal mileage costs, saving £300 to £1,000 a year depending on the personal mileages covered by company-car drivers.
The scheme will be applicable both for at-home charging, and for those using any one of the 67,000 public chargers to be included in Allstar’s electric network plan. Firms interested in the programme don’t have to have leased cars via The Electric Car Scheme.
Thom Groot, The Electric Car Scheme’s chief executive, said the move “represents a significant step forward in making EV’s truly accessible and affordable”.
Tom Rowlands from Allstar’s parent company Corpay said with the number of company car users growing year on year, it is “important to be able to support this unique sub-sector with significant cost saving options”.
