Enable your employees to drive electric for less
Simple to deliver tax-efficient benefit
Paua contract directly with the salary sacrifice provider, Paua integrate the service, and your employee saves
Employer and employee both win
Lower public charging costs ensure increased uptake of electric vehicles on your scheme including drivers who may not have a home driveway
Supports ESG & green transport goals
Savings on public charging means more drivers adopt EVs decarbonising your fleet faster
Tax compliant solution
Linked to the car deduction to ensure that minimum wage rules are not breached and ensuring tax compliance
Ensuring strong scheme adoption across the workforce is the key challenge
Salary sacrifice schemes are designed to attract and reward employees.
Cheaper charging for drivers further enhances the benefit and ensures maximum uptake across the company.
Driver-level issue
EV charging is expensive, reducing uptake
- Employees with driveways can charge cheaply at home
- Renters, flat dwellers and those without driveways (44%) are left paying the highest charging tariffs
- This is unfair and leads to unhappy drivers
Scheme-level issue
Unequal benefits within salary sacrifice
- Some employees (with driveways and home chargers) save thousands, while others see little to no advantage
- Scheme appears unfair to drivers, reducing driver uptake
- No support offered for public charging costs
Employer-level issue
What this means for your business
- Adoption is patchy and the maximum value of the scheme is not captured
- The Salary Sacrifice feels unequal and employees are dissatisfied
- The full value of the scheme is not recognised
How Paua supports Salary Sacrifice scheme adoption
Paua Solo enables significant cost savings for drivers on public charging costs, making schemes fairer and better value whilst maintaining simplicity. Employers save on admin and National Insurance, and together we accelerate EV adoption across your business.
Paua Solo: one app, one card
Solution
Everything in one place. Simple for drivers, simple for you.
Product/Tech
Paua charge card and mobile app with live session data, cost tracking, and driver support.
Available for everyone
Solution
All employees benefit equally, wherever they live.
Product/Tech
Paua Solo gives those without home chargers the ability to access salary sacrifice EV benefits.
Largest charging network in the UK
Solution
Product/Tech
Paua Solo reduces charging costs whilst providing a nationwide charging solution.
Easy admin
Solution
Paua take care of driver onboarding, billing, charging, and reporting.
Product/Tech
One simple invoice from your scheme provider, integrated with your existing setup to reduce admin and stay tax compliant.
Big savings
Solution
Product/Tech
Paua’s transaction engine + scheme provider integration, ensuring HMRC-compliant deductions.
Everyone wins
Solution
Fairer benefits, happier staff, and faster EV adoption.
Product/Tech
Combination of all Paua solutions, underpinned by our platform and managed service.
With Paua Solo, every driver benefits
One card, one app
Simple access and management for drivers and employers.
UK’s largest public charging network
Big savings
Fair for everyone
Employers get fairness across their workforce, no matter where employees live.
Admin made simple
Admin is painless: Paua handles onboarding, billing, VAT and reporting so you don’t have to.
Everyone wins
Fairer benefits, happier staff and faster EV adoption.
Integrated with your scheme provider
Integration direct with your scheme provider and linked to the car so that admin is reduced and tax compliance is maintained.
Benefits for Employers
Linked to the car for tax compliance
Charging benefit is directly connected to each employee’s EV, ensuring accurate payroll deductions and full HMRC compliance without extra admin.
Unrivalled network access
Simplicity you can trust
Paua manages onboarding, billing, and reporting. Your salary sacrifice provider gives you one contract, one payroll file and one invoice.
Cost effectiveness that counts
Scalable and future-proof
Allow Paua to take on the driver admin with your chosen salary sacrifice provider. Paua manages drivers in accordance with their EV leases.
Fairness for all drivers
Create a level playing field so every employee, whether they own a driveway or rent a flat, can benefit equally from the scheme.
How it works for drivers
Choose a Paua card with your EV
Pay through your gross salary
Charge it easily with Paua
Save every month while you drive
Choose your electric vehicle
When ordering your EV, add a Paua charge card with a fixed monthly amount to your Salary Sacrifice plan.
Pay through your gross salary
The cost is taken from your gross income, reducing your tax and National Insurance contributions.
Charge it easily with Paua
Save while you drive
How Paua connects drivers, employers & providers
EV Driver (employee)
Receives an EV with no upfront cost. Pays for EV, maintenance, insurance and Paua public charging from gross salary for an agreed term (before tax & NI).
Employer
Offers EV benefits to employees while reducing NI costs and meeting ESG goals. Manages salary deductions per employee through payroll.
Sal Sac Provider
Manages the EV salary sacrifice scheme overall for employers and employees. Integrates with Paua to offer public EV charging within salary sacrifice plans.
Paua
Partners with public charging networks to offer easy access and payment for charging throughout the UK. Integrates with Scheme Providers to offer cheaper charging to employees!
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Frequently asked questions
- Public charging is more expensive than home charging.
- By adding a fixed amount of public charging to a drivers salary sacrifice bundle they can save up to 62% on your public charging costs.
- A single app and charge card to access over 45 different networks and 65,000 charge point connectors.
- This solution is ideal for employees who rely on public charging making your salary sacrifice solution more equitable for all employees.
- Paua's EV charge card enables a more equitable transition to EV's for those without access to a home charger.
- Paua provides drivers with an EV charge card (and mobile app) which automatically tops up with the employees preferred fixed amount each month.
- If they overspend in any month then the additional cost is taken from their bank card attached to the account.
- If they underspend remaining balance rolls over.
- The monthly amount is fixed for the term of your vehicle agreement.
- Drivers will need to agree to Paua’s driver terms and conditions on sign up.
- Any excess funds on their account at the end of their agreement cannot be returned to the employee. This is to satisfy tax conditions associated with Salary Sacrifice. Paua will send them reminders as they reach the end of their term to ensure they use this up.
- The Paua card is linked to the employees vehicle and is only to be used for charging that vehicle.
- How much a driver needs depends on how many miles they drive, and how charging takes place in public.
- An average driver doing 7,000 miles a year and charging 20% in public will use around £25/month on Paua.
- If a driver does twice the mileage or twice the amount of public charging then £50/month is more suitable.
- £100/month is only recommended for drivers who rely on public charging for all their driving.
- Try our calculator to find out more.
- Paua builds technology to simplify electric vehicle charging and payments. At home, at work, or on the road, Paua simplifies the driver experience and provides a single consolidated platform for businesses operating electric vehicles.
- They are a multi award winning leader in the provision of EV charge cards having enabled the largest roaming network in the UK.
- Read more at paua.com.