I think your theory is fair, but also very few people are actually buying cars. Hyundai are overwhelmed with the ioniq 5 and 6. The 6 has already broken records for pre sales. Most hyundai orders are leases, fleet cars etc. If you look on forums most seem to be motability or work cars, so our orders going to someone who wants to outright buy is unlikely. But its annoying still, my delivery date when from July to march 23. Upsetting but ultimately it is what it is. What else is there? The scheme is being killed off and the cars are getting worse and worse, with over priced APs for very little car.
I spoke to my dealer back in March about what other options were available more quickly and there was a possibility of a 39kWh Kona in either Premium or SE connect trim and a 189 mile range rather than the 300 mile 64kWh. From memory the Premium was in a colour I really hated and the SE connect lacked much of the Kit many of us find essential nowadays.
As Brent, and indeed others, have said there is very little available on Motability. At present I would struggle to find anything to suit my needs, in petrol, the Kamiq perhaps, although extras would need to be added taking the AP + extras cost to over £2k, or I plump for a bigger car with a huge AP, something I would’t prepared to contemplate, and in electric, sadly nothing. Cars with ranges of around 200 miles, but that would necessitate charging for every journey to London. A visit to a friend for lunch and a return trip the same day would mean a motorway stop and a gamble that a charger is free, and I’m not, Lotto excepted, a gambler! The Kona can do the trip without charging, and if that involves limiting the motorway speed to 60/65 mph, that’s fine if it avoids the need to charge, perhaps in colder months. That said the M3 and M25 have speed restrictions and the latter, in particular slow traffic due to volumes.
In fact it is quite striking now, the lack of choice in virtually all sectors, save perhaps small cars which make up almost 30% of cars available, whilst noting that many “large SUV’s ” are in fact, compact ones.