Can you put your name down for a car that isn’t listed on the Motability website but is listed on the manufacturers motability list?? (I’m sure this has been asked before – apologies)
No. The manufacturer’s published lists are only a ‘snapshot’ in time as to what was (or maybe they hoped) would be available on the scheme at the time it was published. The Motability website is a ‘live’ dynamic list (updated daily or occasionally part daily) as to what is actually available to order on the scheme. Hence, the Motability webiste’s listing is the one to work from.
Are you 100%, definitely positive on that?
I’m asking because i personally don’t know, but i do know that people in this forum have ordered the ID4 in Family trim, which was never advertised on the motability website, only in the manufacturers PDF.
In regards to the thread: yeah. PHEV for the scheme is dead, prices for them are ridiculous. £9500 for a Jeep, £8500 for a DS4 etc. We paid £5200 for a Golf (GTE, £3250 AP), which we found already ridiculous. At the moment, we’d be “forced” to go ICE again since there’s no desirable EV on the scheme (Kona being the closest), and PHEVs are stupendously priced.
Which leads me to believe that it’s a price hike for greed, not necessity. If full EVs are cheap(ish), which require the same electric part as PHEVs (with even bigger batteries), and ICE cars are cheap(ish), which require the same ICE part as PHEVs, then PHEVs are expensive to milk people who don’t want to pay current petrol prices, but also have range anxiety.
Prior: SEAT Ateca Xcellence Lux 1.5 TSI DSG MY19, VW Golf GTE PHEV DSG MY23
Current: Hyundai Ioniq 6 Ultimate
Next: we'll see what's available in 2028.