Evri: Driving sustainability and inclusion through Tusker’s EV scheme

Evri, one of the UK’s leading delivery providers, knows that their people are the key to their success. With a nationwide workforce and a strong commitment to sustainability, the company recognised the critical need to expand their benefit offering in a way that could support their employee’s financial wellbeing, boost inclusion and support their ESG journey.

In collaboration with Tusker, Evri launched an Electric Vehicle (EV) Salary Sacrifice Scheme in February 2025, designed to make sustainable driving affordable and accessible to every employee.

The benefit was introduced to address three critical workplace priorities – alleviate the financial impact of the cost of living crisis, elevate employee engagement, and reduce tailpipe emissions – all while strengthening Evri total reward offering.

Strategic goals

Evri brought in Tusker’s salary sacrifice scheme with three important objectives in mind:

1. Supporting financial wellbeing.

Evri wanted to help employees achieve financial security beyond their pay cheque. With help from Tusker, Evri could offer measurable financial value to its workforce. The scheme allows employees to swap some of their gross salary for an EV, reducing their taxable income.

Additionally, inclusive, cost-effective packages like insurance and Lifestyle Protections that are bundled with the car help alleviate financial stress by reducing the need to manage multiple bills at once. Combined with the UK’s lower Benefit-in-Kind (BiK) rates for EVs – which reduced taxing for sustainable company cars – the perk makes electric driving more realistic and affordable compared to high street offers.

2. Enhancing appeal and inclusivity.

In a competitive recruitment market, Evri recognised Tusker’s scheme as a way to differentiate its benefit offering with a flexible, high-value perk that aligns with the UK’s accelerating shift toward sustainable transport in 2030. The benefit also improves the inclusivity of the company’s overall reward proposition by making electric driving accessible to employees – hugely elevating employer branding.

3. Supporting sustainability goals.

As part of Evri’s overarching ESG aims, the scheme directly contributes to the reduction of tailpipe carbon emissions by helping and encouraging workers to switch to electric.

The cruciality of inclusivity

Inclusivity was central to the scheme’s design and implementation. Working closely with the Tusker team, Evri wanted to make sure the scheme could be accessed by every employee, regardless of role, location, or pay grade. This was done by:

• Offering new vehicles, stock vehicles, as well as pre-loved vehicles to help vary price points – enhancing affordability while also shortening delivery times.
• The scheme was chosen to ensure equal access – by shifting away from traditional company cars, Evri made vehicle adoption a workforce-wide option, giving junior employees the same opportunity as executives. 
• Introducing four-weekly payroll integration by using Tusker’s new Lunar technology, allowed employees paid on a four-weekly cycle to easily participate. The system automatically aligns deductions with HMRC frameworks, removing previous barriers to inclusion – meaning every employee, no matter their pay structure, is included.

Partnering with Tusker

After doing thorough research into a number of suppliers, Evri selected Tusker, the UK’s leading salary sacrifice car scheme operator with over 2,500 active customer schemes. Tusker’s commitment to simplicity, inclusivity and sustainability resonated closely with Evri and their own values.

Key features of the partnership include:

• Access to 1,000+ vehicles, including new, stock, and preloved models.
• Single Sign-On integration through EVRI’s benefits platform, providing easy access.
• Lifestyle protection, covering life events such as parental leave or redundancy.

Together, the organisations created a simple, accessible scheme that reflects shared values and supports employees to thrive.

Engaging employees

To drive awareness and uptake, a multi-method communication campaign was conducted. This included:

• Awareness campaigns across digital screens, posters and internal emails introducing the scheme and its benefits.
• FAQs and step-by-step guides to support employees who were new to salary sacrifice schemes.
• Interactive webinars hosted by Tusker allowed workers to explore the system and ask questions, with recordings shared for shift-based teams.

Results – Strong uptake and positive feedback

Just four months after launch, the scheme has delivered outstanding results, massively exceeding expectations:

• 1000+ colleagues enrolled, representing 23% of Evri’s workforce. This result is over triple the UK average for new schemes.
• 46% of employees registered on the platform have requested options and quotes.
• Employees report an intuitive, flawless user experience, supported by Tusker’s caring and responsive customer service team.
• The range of new, stock and pre-loved vehicles has received great reviews for its accessibility to diverse budgets and lifestyles.
• Many colleagues say they feel proud to drive an EV, contributing to Evri’s sustainability goals.

Measuring impact

Evri measures success across three key areas:

Financial.

• Enrolment rate: 23%, outperforming the 5% industry average.
• Average employee saving has so far come to £219 per month through reduced tax and National Insurance.
• Projected/average employer Class 1 NI savings.

Environmental.

• Tusker’s carbon reduction programme covers charging and hybrid emissions.
• Growing adoption is expected to significantly reduce commuting-related carbon emissions*.

Employee Engagement.

• Engagement surveys every six months help teams understand benefit feedback and where to improve the scheme and ongoing communications..
• Platform analytics, including logins, quotes, and order rates, are tracked continuously.

Driving a sustainable future

Evri’s salary sacrifice scheme, delivered in partnership with Tusker, highlights how a well-designed electric vehicle employee benefit – one that is continuously reviewed, measured and improved – can deliver significant, sustainable impact for employees, organisations and the environment.

According to research insights and anecdotal feedback from Tusker car drivers, the scheme helps make electric vehicles – which are often viewed as too costly from the high street – more affordable and accessible. As a result, the collaboration is supporting Evri’s ESG goals, while contributing to the improved financial wellbeing and engagement of the team members enrolled.

Do you want to deliver a significant, sustainable impact for your employees, organisations and environment? 

*Please note, we use carbon offsetting for vehicle tailpipe emissions and grid charging emissions only. We do not offset the carbon footprint to manufacture the vehicle.