Salary sacrifice for electric cars and home energy. Take one, or both.
Perx leaves your staff better off on an electric car and home energy, at no cost to your business, through salary sacrifice. It is run by Covase, the parent company of Orbis IO, in two parts: Perx Motor for the electric car, and Perx Energy for the charger, solar panels and battery at home. Employers can offer either, or both on the same payslip.
No setup fee. After a 15-minute call, we send a one-page plan of the likely take-up and NI saving at your headcount.
The two parts of Perx
Perx Motor
Electric cars through salary sacrifice, funded by Lex Autolease and Ogilvie Fleet and managed on the Orbis platform. Employer NI saving of around £774 per participating employee a year (car-only illustration).
Explore Perx Motor →Perx Energy
Home chargers, solar panels and batteries through salary sacrifice. Available on its own, with or without a car.
Ask us about Perx Energy →Every Perx car runs on Orbis
Orbis IO is the fleet software Covase runs every Perx car on, as it does its managed fleets. For each car it reads, straight from the manufacturer:
- mileage against the contracted allowance
- charging behaviour and battery state
From first call to launch.
- 15-minute call. We walk through your headcount, current benefits stack, and any existing salary-sacrifice provider.
- Costed plan. We model likely take-up and the NI saving at your headcount, and send it as a one-page plan.
- Launch. Payroll integration and the employee portal are live in about 48 hours of go-ahead.
Agreements run two to five years on Perx Motor, and up to seven on Perx Energy.
What the employer gets
No cost to set up
No setup fee, no per-employee licence and no minimum spend. The scheme is deducted from gross pay.
Around £774 a year per employee
Employer National Insurance saved on a car, or around £1,595 with car and home energy. Our published illustrations, per participating employee.
Alongside your current scheme
Perx adds to an existing car salary sacrifice scheme. It does not replace it.
Operator questions
What's the minimum headcount to launch Perx for our team?
There's no hard minimum, but Perx is most economical at 20+ employees because the employer NI saving scales linearly with participating headcount. At smaller scale the scheme still works, because the employee tax-and-NI saving is independent of employer size. But the per-launch fixed effort (payroll integration, employee comms, portal setup) is roughly the same whether you're onboarding 5 employees or 200. Most launches we run sit between 30 and 250 participating employees.
What happens to the agreement if an employee leaves the company mid-contract?
Three standard options, agreed upfront with the employee at sign-up: transfer the sacrifice agreement to their new employer if the new employer operates a compatible scheme; settle the residual balance personally and keep the equipment (or, for batteries and EV chargers, take them to a new address); or return the equipment for a pro-rata settlement. The choice is the employee's. Employer exposure is limited to the months of sacrifice already taken, and no balloon liability sits with the employer.
How long does payroll integration take?
About 48 hours from go-ahead, with a couple of hours of involvement from your payroll team. Perx integrates with the major UK payroll platforms via standard salary-sacrifice deduction lines, so the technical work is on our side. We deliver the deduction file each pay run; your payroll team reviews and posts it. Once the integration is live for one component (cars, charger, battery, solar) adding the others adds zero further integration cost.
What does Perx cost the employer per launch?
Nothing direct. There is no setup fee, no per-employee licence, and no minimum spend. The employer-side cost is the internal effort to introduce the scheme to staff and run the payroll deduction file: typically a few hours per month of HR/payroll time once the launch is complete. The employer NI saving covers any internal admin cost from the first participating employee.
Start with a 15-minute call. We'll tell you what Perx would save at your headcount.
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Perx is provided by Covase Ltd. Lex Autolease and Ogilvie Fleet fund the cars, and Heva Energy provides the home-energy solution behind Perx Energy. Savings are indicative and depend on individual circumstances. Vehicle and energy products are subject to eligibility.