Dec 5, 2020 | BEV, Company Cars, PHEV
In the grand scheme of things it matters not a lot that we put a huge effort into our response to Boris’s consultation on banning ICE cars this summer; there was a paper and a webinar and a fair few articles. I’d be lying though if I said we weren’t a tad peeved that...
Nov 30, 2020 | BEV, Company Cars, PHEV
The tragedy of cars like the new Renault Clio E-Tech is that they’ll be ignored in favour of cars that are much heavier, expensive and ultimately more damaging to the environment. If you read the article (link below) you can’t fail to be impressed by how much...
Nov 26, 2020 | BEV, Company Cars, PHEV
There are around 33 million cars in the UK and they average over 8.3 years old. In a normal year, around 2.3m new cars are registered. This year, maybe 90k of these will be fully electric, because that’s all the UK will get. To put that in context there are 160k...
Nov 20, 2020 | BEV, Brexit, Company Cars, PHEV
After years of arguing, Brexit is getting very real. We understand BMW have announced an increase in RRP of just over £3,000 effective 1 January on the I3. This is due to changes in the “Product Specific Rules of Origin” legislation pertaining to the maximum permitted...
Nov 18, 2020 | BEV, Company Cars, PHEV
So Boris has gone ahead with his ban on petrol and diesel cars from 2030 (and PHEVs from 2035). We did respond to the original consultation to point out that we believed a ban would be both counter productive and unnecessary. I can’t imagine we were the only...
Nov 10, 2020 | Company Cars, P11D, Private Fuel
Harvey shares his view with Fleet News on the latest P11D stats and what they mean for people taking the “benefit” of private fuel with a company car...