I had an email exchange with Barry at Nissan Motability. I was enquiring whether the Tekna spec of X Trail will appear in Q3. Barry advised that the E-Power Tekna won’t as it doesn’t meet the criteria that Motability set. These days the goal posts seem to move around that much I’ve no idea what that even means to be fair ??
He did comment that he is sure the Mild Hybrid will be considered for the creation of their Q3 campaign, but would be dependant on supply of specific models.
I would love to know what those goal posts are, I’m not convinced it’s worth us knowing though as they’ll be different by next month. If we can have the Ioniq6 and 5, the Mach E then hopefully KIA will wake up and let us near the EV6. Personally, I’d like to see higher specifications of the Enyaq (there’s range in the budget) a drop in AP and additions of both Mach E (unlikely given it’s inflated retail price) and Q4 and the (re)introduction of Volvo’s EVs to the scheme in more than base spec.
He did comment that he is sure the Mild Hybrid will be considered for the creation of their Q3 campaign, but would be dependant on supply of specific models.When you look at the retail prices of some of the cars on the scheme there is no reason the XT Tecna trim can’t join and be with in the so called goal posts.
Therefore what I think Barry was skirting around saying was either, Nissan are selling enough capacity of Tecna trims retail and/or Motability won’t agree to the price Nissan wants for it to join the scheme!
The biggest problem is “we” aren’t getting a honest answer on whats going on!
As your aware Ive been waiting for the Tecna trim to join since Q1 and will have to make my mind up where Im going this next quarter.
@MFilingham Theres no reason the EV6 didn’t make a show when the Ioniq 5 did. The problem is Hyundai/Kia’s new bread of cars for the past 2 to 3 years are now up there with most of the mainstream market and are no longer a dependable budget manufacturer, we go use to seeing on the scheme year upon year.
Personally I dn’t think the scheme will ever recover to what it was prior the pandemic and certainly not to its former self . We will be stuck with the majority of entry level cars no one wants or end of model specials just to get rid of them..
The new Vauxhall Astra electric saw its global launch this week at a whopping 49% premium to the equivulent ICE version. How the hell can anyone say its cheaper motoring when the majority of British puplic wouldn’t recoup the additional outlay over their ownership. Yet companies like Stellantis and Renault have no intention of reducing prices, as they are use to the over inflated of the pandemic. At the same time other companies have started to see reductions.
Battery manufacturers have said the price per kWh of battery has fallen to $100 or below in 2023 from $137 last year and will continue to drop. Realistically an EV should cost little more than that of an equivulent ICE and certainly not £40K for an entry level Astra!
The world has gone mad lol.