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…
Innovative ideas force change Hats off to Paul Fagan for choosing an intriguing way to raise finance for the EV-only brokerage WeVee. Good luck to him and the team on Seedrs. Taking a new approach is sometimes the best way to make change happen, which is exactly what John Hazlett and Frontier Vehicle Leasing have done by teaming up with Select Car…
OEMs react swiftly to grant cut WHILE the cut to the Plug-in Car Grant was, to say the least, unexpected, the OEMs are organising themselves pretty quickly under the new £35k cut off point. Citroen was the first to react with its new e-C4 model now below the new EV waterline. Yesterday Vauxhall also realigned prices of its Mokka-e to ensure it now qualifies for…
Strong year outlook THE prospects for leasing brokers in 2021 look strong. Speaking at a BVRLA organised Industry Outlook webinar, Wessex Fleet’s Spencer Blake outlined why conditions were so promising, and also explained that the company’s order take in January was the BEST EVER in 15 years of trading! In April this year, energy tariffs are changing. If your customers are not…
Don’t ignore the brokers Volvo On a global basis, Volvo would dearly love its customer to form an orderly digital queue to acquire electric Volvos through Volvo channels. It’s a brand dream. And it simply won’t work. Market channels in the UK are too complex for such a simple approach and the broker market not only has digital advantage, it has consumer reach. And it…