230 ScottishPower staff choose EV from Tusker salary sacrifice scheme

After one-year of using Tusker's car benefit scheme, ScottishPower has seen 230 employees opt for an electric car on the scheme.

ScottishPower’s scheme helps with employee retention and attraction, enhances their sustainable benefits offer, and meets a growing need among their employees to make the switch to driving ‘electric’. Tusker has been working with the company to ensure maximum awareness and take up of the scheme.

An additional EV grant scheme has also been introduced to complement the salary sacrifice car scheme. The EV Grants mean that the already highly affordable Tusker vehicles are made even more economically attractive, as employees are able to get a lump sum payment, in exchange for ScottishPower livery being displayed on their electric vehicle.

Tusker has worked with ScottishPower to ensure that the new electric car benefit scheme is inclusive and easily accessible to all employees.  A mobile-friendly, online car order process was introduced and fully integrated to ScottishPower’s existing employee benefit portal, which provided employees with access to a wealth of information about the car scheme and the vehicles available.

As a result, 50% of employees have logged into the Tusker scheme website to view the cars available, demonstrating a huge appetite for the benefit. 230 employees have ordered a car on the scheme in the first year and more than 170 cars have already been delivered. This represents a carbon emission saving of more than 300 tonnes.

Paul Gilshan, CEO at Tusker, said: “ScottishPower have really embraced the car scheme from Tusker with employees making the switch to an affordable, greener and cleaner vehicle when they might not otherwise be able to afford to do so.”

Jenny McCosh, Benefits Manager at ScottishPower commented, “We are delighted with the engagement we have seen from employees on the scheme, showing their real desire to lower their carbon footprint and be ambassadors for the switch to driving electric.”

Jenny continues, “We’re proud to be offering our employees the opportunity to drive a brand new electric car and make savings while doing so. It’s a key part of our overall benefits package and fits really well with our corporate sustainability goals.”