Best EV salary sacrifice providers
EV salary sacrifice can be one of the cheapest ways to get a new electric car, provided your employer offers access to a suitable scheme.
Instead of arranging a personal lease or PCP agreement yourself, the car is provided through your employer and the cost is taken from your gross salary. The tax savings can make an EV salary sacrifice deal very attractive, especially if insurance, servicing, maintenance, tyres and breakdown cover are included in the package.
The catch is that you can’t usually sign up on your own. Your employer needs to have a scheme in place, and the cost will depend on your salary, tax position, mileage, contract length and the exact package being offered. If you’re new to the idea, read our separate guide to how EV salary sacrifice works before comparing providers.
This guide rounds up some of the UK’s leading EV salary sacrifice providers, looking at what they offer, who they may suit and what to check before signing up.
Some of the companies below are marked with an asterisk* – these companies are commercial partners of The Car Expert, so we may receive a small commission if you click through to their websites to find out more. This doesn’t affect the price you pay, but helps us keep the site running.
What should you check before choosing a provider?
Don’t judge an EV salary sacrifice scheme purely on the advertised monthly cost. Different providers include different things, so two quotes that look similar may not cover the same costs.
Check whether the package includes insurance, servicing, maintenance, tyres, breakdown cover, road tax, accident management and delivery. You should also check whether a home charger, public charging allowance or charging support is included, or whether those are optional extras.
You’ll also need to understand what happens if your circumstances change. Ask how the scheme deals with resignation, redundancy, long-term sickness, parental leave or a change in salary. Some providers offer risk protection for employers or early-termination support, but you shouldn’t assume it’s included.
Finally, check how clearly the provider explains the numbers. A good salary sacrifice website should show how the deduction affects take-home pay, not just quote a headline lease price.
The Electric Car Scheme*
URL: electriccarscheme.com
The Electric Car Scheme was set up to help employers and employees access EV salary sacrifice without having to become experts in company car tax, leasing and payroll.
The company works with a selection of leasing companies to find deals on electric cars, then packages the car through a salary sacrifice arrangement. Its website has separate sections for employers and employees, with explanations of how the scheme works, what’s included and how savings are calculated.
One useful point is its focus on risk support for employers. The company says it can help with situations such as employees going on sick leave or parental leave, which is often one of the biggest concerns for smaller businesses looking at salary sacrifice for the first time.
The site also has a good advice section, covering topics such as electric versus petrol cars, leasing versus buying, charging and range anxiety. You’ll need to register to look at specific cars, but the site provides plenty of background information before that stage.
The Electric Car Scheme may suit employers that want support setting up a scheme without managing all the detail themselves, as well as employees who need clear information to show their company.
Octopus*
URL: octopusev.com
Octopus Electric Vehicles is one of the best-known EV salary sacrifice providers, with a scheme designed to be straightforward for employers to set up and run.
The website separates information for employers and employees, which helps users find the right route quickly. There’s also a clear salary sacrifice section explaining how the scheme works and what’s included.
According to the source copy, an Octopus package can include the new car, insurance, servicing, maintenance, breakdown cover, free charging and a home charger installation. Those inclusions are potentially valuable, but they should be checked against the latest offer before signing up.
One useful feature is the employee-facing “convince your company” approach, designed to help staff encourage their employer to introduce a scheme. That should be helpful if you want salary sacrifice but your workplace doesn’t yet offer it.
Octopus may suit employees who want an EV-focused provider with a strong consumer brand, and employers looking for a scheme that’s designed to be relatively simple to introduce.
SalSac*
URL: salsac.co.uk
SalSac does exactly what its name suggests, providing salary sacrifice cars for both small and large employers.
The website focuses on electric vehicles, although the source copy says it can offer salary sacrifice on petrol, diesel and hybrid cars as well. In practice, EVs are where the strongest savings are likely to be for most employees.
One of the site’s strengths is clear explanation. It includes an example payslip showing how net pay could look with a car provided through salary sacrifice, which is useful for anyone trying to understand the effect on take-home pay.
The site also shows a range of electric cars with indications of petrol savings, likely electricity costs and estimated savings over a three-year period. These figures are general guides and will depend on your circumstances, but they can still help with budgeting.
Pricing includes the car, comprehensive insurance, servicing and road tax for the duration of the agreement, with delivery to your door also included according to the source copy.
Fleet Alliance*
URL: fleetalliance.co.uk
Fleet Alliance is a Glasgow-based fleet management and funding specialist. Its salary sacrifice offer is focused on electric cars, which is where the tax savings are strongest for employees.
The site provides helpful information for both employers and employees, including FAQs, explainer videos and example calculations comparing salary sacrifice with traditional leasing. That makes it easier to understand the difference between a normal lease cost and a salary sacrifice deduction.
As with several providers, you’ll need to be registered to see the latest offers across the full EV range. That makes it less useful for quick browsing, but more appropriate once your employer has a scheme in place.
Fleet Alliance also promotes employer support, which may reassure businesses that are new to salary sacrifice. It may suit companies that want a more managed fleet-style service, rather than simply pointing staff towards a list of EV deals.
Pink Salary Exchange*
URL: pinksalaryexchange.co.uk
Pink Salary Exchange offers electric cars through salary sacrifice and works with a panel of lenders to help source suitable deals.
One of its more interesting features is flexibility on contract length. The source copy says terms are available from as little as six months up to four years, which could be useful if you don’t want to commit to a typical three- or four-year arrangement.
The site shows indicative monthly costs for different tax brackets, which helps employees understand how the same car can cost different amounts depending on salary and tax position.
Pink Salary Exchange also has a community section aimed at helping transfer cars between employers when an employee leaves the business. That could help reduce one of the risks employers face when running a salary sacrifice scheme.
This may suit employers and employees who want more flexibility around contract length and vehicle transfer options than a traditional fixed-term lease arrangement.
Select Car Leasing*
URL: selectcarleasing.co.uk/salary-sacrifice
Select Car Leasing is a major UK leasing broker and now offers salary sacrifice alongside its personal and business leasing services.
The site provides indicative costs for 20% and 40% taxpayers, which helps show how salary sacrifice costs can vary depending on income tax band. It also compares monthly salary sacrifice costs with a standard personal contract hire agreement.
That comparison is useful because many employees will be deciding between salary sacrifice and personal leasing. Seeing the two routes side by side makes the potential savings easier to understand.
There’s information for both employees and employers, along with an FAQ section. Select Car Leasing may suit users who are already familiar with leasing and want to compare salary sacrifice against a more conventional lease.
Driveway Vehicle Solutions*
URL: drivewayvehiclesolutions.co.uk
Driveway Vehicle Solutions is a Nottingham-based fleet management and funding specialist that also offers EV salary sacrifice.
The website provides information for both employers and employees, including FAQs and explainer videos. There are also example calculations showing how salary sacrifice costs can compare with traditional leasing.
The main limitation is that you need to log in to the company’s salary sacrifice portal to see the full range of available cars. That’s fairly common in this market, but it means casual shoppers can’t browse the latest deals as easily as they can on some other sites.
Driveway Vehicle Solutions also highlights employer support, which should be useful for companies setting up salary sacrifice for the first time. It may suit businesses that want a provider with wider fleet knowledge rather than a pure online car-ordering service.
Love Electric*
URL: loveelectric.cars
Love Electric is a salary sacrifice provider focused on helping employees get into electric cars at a lower monthly cost. Its website is clearly laid out, with simple explanations of how the scheme works and what’s available.
The landing page shows a selection of electric cars available to lease, supported by sections explaining the different parts of the offer. That makes the site relatively easy to understand if you’re new to salary sacrifice.
One unusual feature is Love Electric’s used car salary sacrifice scheme, called Reloved. This could appeal to small businesses or employees who want the benefits of salary sacrifice but need a lower monthly cost than a brand-new car may offer.
The website also includes news, environmental information, a blog and a community forum. Love Electric may suit employers and employees looking for a more EV-focused provider with a clear consumer-style presentation.
Hippo Leasing*
URL: hippoleasing.co.uk
Hippo Leasing offers salary sacrifice alongside its wider leasing services. From the landing page, salary sacrifice is found within the leasing section rather than being the main focus of the whole site.
Once you find the relevant section, Hippo gives a useful explanation of how salary sacrifice works and outlines the benefits for employers and employees. It also offers to take care of the paperwork involved in signing up.
The site includes a worked example using a Tesla Model 3 and a fictional employee, which helps show how the numbers can work in practice. The example also shows servicing, maintenance and roadside assistance as part of the package.
There’s a frequently asked questions section and an application form to request a call. Hippo may suit employees or employers who are already considering leasing and want salary sacrifice as another route into a new EV.
Fleet Evolution
URL: fleetevolution.com
Fleet Evolution says it launched the UK’s first electric car salary sacrifice scheme in 2012 and now works with a wide range of employers, from small businesses to large organisations.
The site puts a lot of emphasis on making schemes work for HR departments rather than only fleet teams. That may appeal to businesses where salary sacrifice is being considered as an employee benefit rather than a traditional company-car arrangement.
There’s plenty of information explaining how salary sacrifice works and how to set up a scheme. Fleet Evolution also offers workplace charging support, including schemes that can supply charging equipment for employees to use at a factory or office.
You need to register to request a quote for a car. Once registered, the process is based around choosing a manufacturer and model before sending the criteria through for a quote.
Fleet Evolution may suit employers that want salary sacrifice to sit alongside wider environmental or workplace benefits, particularly where staff may not all have access to home charging.
Go Green
URL: gogreenleasing.co.uk
Go Green is part of the Bridle Group, a large vehicle finance broker, and focuses on electric and hybrid vehicles.
The website is simple to navigate. From the landing page, you can search by make, model, fuel type, driving range, special offers or price band. That makes it more approachable for employees who want to browse cars before getting too deep into the salary sacrifice detail.
Go Green gives electric cars and hybrids similar space on the site, although electric cars are generally where salary sacrifice tax advantages are strongest. The site also includes guides covering electric vehicles, leasing and salary sacrifice.
If you’re not sure what you want, you can request a call back for help. That should be useful for drivers who are new to EVs and need guidance on range, charging and whether a particular car will suit their usage.
Go Green may suit employees who want a straightforward browsing experience and employers looking for a provider with wider leasing-broker support.
Novuna
URL: novunavehiclesolutions.co.uk
Novuna Vehicle Solutions offers a broad range of leasing and fleet services, with salary sacrifice sitting within its wider EV and business mobility offering.
The salary sacrifice information takes a few clicks to find, but once there, the site provides detailed information for employers and employees. It explains how salary sacrifice works and outlines the benefits for staff and businesses.
Novuna’s scheme information includes car choice, home charger support through British Gas, maintenance, road tax and insurance. The site also has an EV Hub covering common questions around electric cars, with information on available vehicles, range, charging speed and boot space.
Novuna may suit employers that want salary sacrifice as part of a broader vehicle-solutions package, rather than a standalone EV-only scheme.
WeVee
URL: wevee.uk
WeVee is focused on making the process of getting a new electric car simpler, with salary sacrifice offered through employers.
The website allows users to search by body style, make or category, including SUVs, sports cars and vans. It also has sections aimed at employers, explaining how salary sacrifice can be used as an employee benefit.
For employees, the site explains how the scheme works and includes a broader section on driving an EV. It also offers advisers to help people who are new to electric cars and salary sacrifice.
There’s a section for EVs currently in stock and ready for delivery, as well as higher-end models promoted under a light-hearted “drive like the boss” theme.
WeVee may suit employees who want a more car-shopping-led experience, particularly if they’re still deciding what kind of EV would fit their needs.
Zenith
URL: zenith.co.uk
Zenith is a large independent vehicle management business offering leasing, outsourcing and salary sacrifice programmes.
Salary sacrifice is not immediately obvious from the landing page, as the company has a wide range of business services. You need to navigate through the business and funding sections to find it.
Once you get there, the site explains how the scheme works, the tax advantages, the choice of cars and what’s included. The source copy says Zenith’s scheme includes insurance, road tax, servicing, maintenance, breakdown cover, replacement tyres, windscreen cover and accident management.
For employers, Zenith offers an online management system called Pulse, which provides access to information about employees’ cars, such as emissions and accidents. The scheme also includes risk-mitigation support for situations such as longer-term employee absence.
Zenith may suit larger employers or companies that want salary sacrifice as part of a wider fleet-management arrangement.
Which EV salary sacrifice provider should you choose?
The best provider depends on whether you’re an employee trying to get access to a scheme, or an employer choosing which scheme to offer.
If you’re an employee, start with your employer. You can’t normally sign up to EV salary sacrifice on your own in the same way that you can take out PCP finance or a personal lease. Your employer needs to have a scheme in place, so the most useful provider may be the one your company already uses.
If your employer doesn’t currently offer salary sacrifice, look for providers that make it easy to explain the benefits to your company. Sites with clear employer guides, example payslips and simple cost explanations can help you make the case.
If you’re an employer, don’t simply choose the provider with the lowest headline monthly costs. Look at administration, employee support, early-termination protection, insurance, maintenance, charging support, vehicle choice and how much work your business will need to do.
For many employees, EV salary sacrifice can be a very attractive way into a new electric car. But it’s still a financial commitment tied to your job and salary, so make sure you understand the full package before signing up.
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Additional reporting by Tom Johnston. Originally published in 2022, last updated August 2026.
*The Car Expert has commercial partnerships with Driveway Vehicle Solutions, Fleet Alliance, Hippo Leasing, Love Electric, Octopus Electric Vehicles, Pink Salary Exchange, SalSac and Select Car Leasing. If you click through to their websites, we may receive a small commission. This does not affect the price you pay.
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