How can you beat something that has a huge advantage as mbo pay no vat, if we was allowed to buy a car ourselves and pay no vat then it would change hugely. If you buy a new car privately 20% goes to the goverment. On a 25k car thats 5k and imo mb have a monopoly and something needs to be done, about that.
For many the scheme is not what it was and doesn’t offer them the flexability it did? Part of that’s not mbo fault, but many will have to downsize to stay on the scheme or get something not really suitable for their needs.
The big issue is and is not just for us with mobility issues but everyone, that doesn’t have the ability to charge at home and at a cheap rate. Moving forward an ev is not an option for me, until things change alot.
Right now some new house’s cannot get hooked up to the national grid as there’s no capacity and with ai and other server hubs coming online even more energy will be needed as with all the ev. 1 hub can use the energy of around 10k homes.
I see huge issues ahead and it’s not because of Ukraine, more the 4th industrial revolution and it’s effects and the restriction they want to put on people and some of those are now being added to cars or will be, next it will be some charge per mile which will imo force many off the roads.
Also I think our mindsets have to change about getting a new car every 3 years. Yep it’s nice but is it adding to the problem, we all think we are trying to solve and taking steps to do so.
We have become accustomed to getting a new car and anything other than a new car is considered by some as bangernomics. I really think getting a new car every 3 years is worse than driving an ice car, or scrapping them in favour of ev’s, before the end of their natural life. Even though Ice cars have become more and more efficient and pushout less and less pollution than they did and due to the huge footprint of making a new cars and ev’s sadly have a bigger footprint.
That’s another whole question?
Its great for the economic’s of the car makers and the government’s though, threw the policies they are pushing. Also they making huge profits even during a crisis, As most buisnesses work on a % margin and the more something sells for the more they make in profit.
I’ve put my own real case across and after 5 years of being off the scheme, I will see a return, maybe even before it’s depends how much the benefit rises over that time. Thats not calculated in either
I do agree with alot you say, but the facts remain that many having an ev is not viable right now and may never become viable for them, but at some point they will be forced to get an ev to remain on the scheme.
That’s another reason also for many having to leave the scheme and when is the right time. For me that was now. For others it’s because whats on offer is not suitable at a price they can afford of justify and maybe they need to look at used as an option over new, like many do, for many reasons, they don’t use the scheme but get the mobility allowance and could join the scheme but choose not to, maybe it’s down to the restrictions of the scheme as well and if you owned a car off the scheme your partner / children etc could use the car also for there own purpose’s. I seeless multi car households moving forward also due to the higher costs of ev’s and then when driverless cars arrive, what’s the point owning car if you cannot or are not allowed drive it as the ai is safer.
If my decsion and that of others was solely based on being the most cost effective way of running a brand new car, then staying on the scheme would be the option but their’s alot more to it than just that.
No way is right or wrong if it works for you. For many the scheme isn’t working for them how it used to and I can really see numbers dropping, as has the offerings on the scheme currently theirs around 70 different car models to pick from and 520 different variants, as opposed to the over 2k there was before.
I find it very helpful to talk about these problems as most of us need to plan ahead and leaving the scheme was something i have been looking at for some time and I feel the longer i left it now the harder it would be to leave the scheme and the less choices I would have as car makers switch to ev’s and some plan to well before 2030.