It’s not the reduced grant that will stop UK going EV… …It’s the lack of supply. While manufacturers have reacted with a degree of pleasing urgency to reduce the list price of vehicles just above £35k to just below the tidemark for grant qualification, there appears to be another issue on the horizon: getting hold of electric cars. Fleet Procure has delved…
THE Software-as-a-Service platform, QV Systems, has partnered with broker lease marketing website, LeaseLoco, to provide a swifter enquiry to customer response timeline, effective today (11 May, 2021). The new partnership sees information gathered on a LeaseLoco enquiry immediately passed into the QV Systems Accelerate Platform. For brokers using the Accelerate Platform, it means the time-consuming rekeying of data from the LeaseLoco lead…
Pictured left to right: Sue Chapman, Dave Chapman of MAF, with Ric Traynor, executive chairman Begbies Traynor Group MAF Leasing, a BVRLA leasing broker based in Derbyshire, is now part of Begbies Traynor Group after directors Dave and Sue Chapman sold the MAF Finance Group – an asset finance broker formerly known as Midlands Asset Finance – to the business recovery and…
Ford, the leading commercial vehicle provider, has confirmed its participation in the Commercial Vehicle Show. The CV Show will take place over 31 August to 02 September 2021 at its traditional venue at the NEC Birmingham. Usually Ford uses the occasion to unveil at least one new model or significant updates. At the last pre-pandemic show in 2019, Ford showed revised Transit,…
PUT this date in your diary: 12 May, from 0900 to 1000. That’s when Leasing.com’s Paul Harrison, head of strategic partnerships at the leasing deal portal, will be talking about changing consumer mobility preferences in the BVRLA webinar A spotlight on mobility solutions. Harrison says that motorists are moving away from Personal Contract Purchase (PCP) in favour of Personal Contract Hire (PCH).…
KIA is reorganising its fleet team: Moyosola Fujamade is the company’s new national contract hire manager. Fujamade takes over from Phil Glover, who remains with the fleet team in his new role as RV & fleet operations manager. We’re delighted to welcome Moyo to the team at a pivotal time for Kia and following the successful launch of several key fleet models.…
LEASING brokers could be facing “a significant” increase in fees for regulated firms, while a new flat fee is proposed for each Appointed Representative (AR) on a broker’s books, says the BVRLA. The proposed new changes are: A significant increase to the fees paid by consumer credit firms to create greater alignment of minimum fees charged to other authorised firms in the…
KIA is introducing an £11.25 a month bolt-on to its Kia Charge service. While Kia Charge provides a single account to access most public chargepoints, the new bolt-on will provide a discount of 64% to the ultra fast charging network provided by IONITY – equivalent to 25p per kWh. Kia says the bolt-on pays for itself. It offers the example of recharging…