May 28, 2021 | BEV, Company Cars, PHEV
If your logic is simply that EVs are best, then it follows that the bigger the EV the bestest it must be right? Ladies and Gentlemen, please welcome the 1000bhp Hummer EV; proudly described on the GMC website as “zero emissions”. In the UK there are just under 32...
May 14, 2021 | BEV, Company Cars, PHEV
There are now 31.7m cars registered in the UK, and they average 8.6 years old (up from 8.3 in 2019). The average diesel is now 8 years old (up from 7.3 in 2019) with petrol at 9.3 (9.1 in 2019). These statistics for UK car registrations to December 2020 were released...
Apr 26, 2021 | BEV, Company Cars
The birth of the digital watch in the 1970s led to crisis for Swiss watchmakers. Some built their own, others stuck to their guns and weathered the storm. And, of course, no one threatened to ban the mechanical watch… I see parallels with the arrival in volume...
Apr 15, 2021 | BEV, Company Cars, P11D, PHEV, Private Fuel
David Chandler and Harvey Perkins very much enjoyed taking part in the AFP webinar this morning about Tax and the Company Car. We talked at length about the tax system and why its too complicated, the new super deduction (the only tax relief that wears its pants on...
Apr 14, 2021 | BEV, Company Cars, PHEV
The graph above shows where in the world new EVs and PHEVs have been registered over the last ten years. If we accept that overall global supply is limited, it’s interesting to see where the cars are going. Through to the end of 2019, more than half of the cars built...
Mar 30, 2021 | BEV, Company Cars
One last comment on the EV grant. Just picking up from a point made elsewhere by Paul Gauntlett. The EV grant isn’t the Government giving money away. Like so many of these things, it’s actually about them taking a little less. VAT on a 25k list price car is £4,167. If...
