Car Registered In October

Car Registered In October

After the good news in September, October was another better month for UK car registrations, up overall by 26% year on year according to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) As usual BEV was a big mover – up 23% on October 2021. Unusually, however, an...

EV tipping point and hot baths

If, like me, you’ve ever left a bath running and found there’s no hot water, it ends up stone cold. You go fill a kettle and pour boiling water in but the bath’s still freezing. So why do people say that we’ve reached a “tipping point” with the...
Fleet and Mobility Live

Fleet and Mobility Live

Didn’t we have a lovely day, the day we went to #FleetAndMobilityLive 2022… But what did we learn? Well, we learned that there’s cork in the Mazda MZ-30 because Mazda started out as a company producing cork. We learned that the employee tax treatment...
An increase in PHEV and EV company cars

An increase in PHEV and EV company cars

We know that by the end of March 2021, the number of company cars in the UK, as reported by HMRC, had declined 10% year on year to around 720k units. We also know that the total company car tax and NIC take fell to £2.1bn (having peaked at £2.5bn). Over the...
Cars Registered in September

Cars Registered in September

Good news everybody! Sorry, I don’t want to sound like Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth from Futurama… but it IS good news. We had a better September for new car registrations than last year, up 14% overall. And, at this rate, even though 2022 may still be the worst...
EVs Registered in August

EVs Registered in August

Stupidly, I managed to step out in front of a VW ID3 yesterday. And when I jumped back on the pavement, I noticed the car coming the other way was also an ID3. In the next five minutes or so, I counted 8 EVs driving around Milton Keynes. It got me thinking… so I’ve...