There’s still far more choice getting an Ice vehicle than EV. Want a large vehicle at a reasonable AP no EV for you. Nearly all the affordable EVs have a relatively tiny boot certainly no good for wheelchair or scooter users.
Fact is the EVs are subsidised for all we know like councils and housing associations MB might be getting extra grants to help push electric. Fact is for the vast majority electric is cheaper to run and subsidising people into those cars helps with fuel poverty and social mobility. Even after electricity price rises it’s still cheaper than fuel if you can charge at home.
There’s still an order of magnitude more non electric cars on the scheme for cheaper than the decent sized EVs.
So what if MB want to encourage electric take up fact is without MB nearly every EV driver on the scheme wouldn’t have an ev that’s huge.
My first car on the scheme is a ZS EV and next year my next car will be another EV electric had given me my freedom back versus the outrageous cost of fuel plus my hands no longer hurt from engine vibration and I can refuel at home overnight whereas more often than not the local petrol stations have run out again due to tourists.
Horses for courses until 2035 but if motability wants to help subsidise ap on EVs then good I say they should do similar for automatics too as that cost is outrageous too