Case Study – Engie

Tusker’s salary sacrifice car benefits scheme allows employees to drive electric vehicles or ultra low emission vehicles (ULEVs) without the expense and uncertainty that can come with electric vehicle ownership. The scheme also benefits employers by offering considerable tax savings.

Engie is a global reference in low-carbon energy and services. Its ambition is to become the world leader in the zero-carbon transition “as a service” for its customers, in particular global companies and local authorities. Engie relies on its key activities of renewable energy, gas and services to offer competitive turnkey solutions.

Engie has been running Tusker’s salary sacrifice car benefit scheme since 2018, with 127 cars ordered on scheme to date.

Due to the nature of Engie’s business, it has been able to offer employees free home charging point installations and Engie is continuing to educate its employees on the UK’s comprehensive and ever-growing charging infrastructure.

“Implementing and running the scheme with Tusker has been fantastic. The Tusker team are awesome, they’ve held our hands with everything from helping us with employee education and engagement to providing roadshows and test drives. Tusker offers us a prestige service, even though our current order levels are relatively low compared to some of their other customers, I can’t recommend them enough!”

 Engie staff have been impressed with the choice of vehicle makes and models available on the Tusker scheme, with the most popular models being Tesla model 3, Audi e-tron, Toyota C-H, Kia e-Niro and Peugeot e-2008.

So far, the majority of take up has been for pure electric vehicles (91%), with just 9% of Engie employees opting for hybrids or low emission petrol vehicles (LEPV). And employees are reporting huge savings per month, compared to PCP, with the Smart forfour the cheapest on the scheme at just £226 per month.

Engie has found that during the pandemic employees have been keen to get involved with the scheme, as they don’t feel safe on public transport. From Engie’s perspective the Tusker car benefit salary sacrifice program has allowed the business to remain environmentally conscious, whilst still meeting its duty of care requirements around employee safety.