electric salary sacrifice car?

[anon3455]

Wondering if anyone has any experiences/ pros/ cons they would wish to share about salary sacrifice cars. My organisation are offering an electric car lease via salary sacrifice and having had some extremely bad car luck recently with my second hand car (which is never out of the garage and costing a fortune on repairs) I'm wondering if this might actually be a good option! The deal covers car tax, insurance and also tyres, so although the monthly costs initially seemed on the expensive side, when this is all taken into account I would be paying the same monthly payment as I am now, but with a brand new and (hopefully!) more reliable vehicle. I have zero experience of electric vehicles either and live pretty rurally (although I should add the deal also includes the free installation of electric car charging equipment at your home on certain models). So I would be grateful for advice on the following:-

1. Fully electric vehicles pros/cons/ things to note etc. and;

1. Salary sacrifice experiences pros/ cons/ things to think about

TIA!

I have a hybrid. We noticed how difficult evs were to charge on our way to Cornwall. 280 miles (and this is rarely accurate!) means we couldn’t get home. No charging in our village in Cornwall. Finding chargers in some areas is impossible. At home we charge the hybrid but not every house can do this and flats are a big problem. The NW is also very short of chargers. This issue seems to follow deprived areas. I wonder why!

Stats clearly show company ev cars are cost effective - lucky employees . The huge cost of buying them for private owners and in particular, where it’s the only car, is problematic and sales are stalling. I’d quite like the Macan ev at £75,000. I don’t like many others! A Hyundai isn’t my idea of fun.

Thanks. We don't often travel long distances at all, just to my brothers generally and there's a services on the way which my brother uses every week and says is fine for chargers, he's never had to wait. If we did long distances often I could see how we'd need to be more careful though.