A series of free-to-view webinars on the cost-of-living crisis and how to tackle the key issues are being run over the coming months by Fleet Evolution.

Fleet Evolution founder and managing director Andrew Leech

The first event, focused on Fighting the Cost of Living Crisis, reveals innovative ways to help businesses cut costs and reduce stress at a time when inflation is at a 40-year high and fuel prices have reached new records.

The webinar will run on 13 July at 10am and will explore the cost benefits of providing electric cars for staff through salary sacrifice, and consider innovative ways of cutting costs and reducing stress.

The webinar is then available on two subsequent dates: 26 July and 4 August.

Fleet Evolution founder Andrew Leech said: “As the cost-of-living crisis gets ever deeper, there has never been a better time to consider switching staff into an electric car provided under a salary sacrifice scheme. For the lower paid especially, this move can save them literally thousands in motoring costs per annum.

“There is a misconception that salary sacrifice car schemes are for the more highly paid, 40% tax payers but, in reality, those that really benefit are at the lower end of the pay scale paying tax at 20%,” he added.

Each session will include two instalments. The first hour is aimed directly at the employer and will focus on how an EV salary sacrifice scheme can be constructed to help ease the cost-of-living crisis for employers, while helping staff through the current crisis.

“For employers, from an ethical viewpoint, going down an EV salary sacrifice route shows them in a positive light by helping their employees manage living costs at a time of price rises across the board,” said Andrew Leech.

This will be directly followed by a session for the employee, focused on quantifying the savings in motoring costs though the selection of electric cars via a salary sacrifice scheme.

“Being able to have an electric car under a salary sacrifice scheme means employees can save substantial sums against the cost of running their own vehicle.

“As we have been able to demonstrate previously, when compared to the running costs of a conventional fossil-fuelled car, the savings from having an electric car under a salary sacrifice scheme can be in the region of £300-£400 a month,” summed up Leech.

Employers and employees who wish to view the webinars can log in here.