Motability should be presenting an unbiased outlook and presenting EV’s, ICE and Hybrid vehicles on an equal footing and currently they are not.
I agree! However, @MFillingham made a very good point to perhaps why Motability have a bias towards EV’s
It must be easier to negotiate a good discount on EVs right now, allowing cars for over £50k to be available without the need for £8,000 APs. However much we’d like to see a bigger selection of higher priced cars, I can’t see Motability getting enough of a discount to get a £50k+ petrol car reduced enough to get a reasonable AP, given as we get closer to 2035 the crystal ball really can’t predict what will happen to used demand. I would expect the used petrol and diesel markets to remain strong for as long as there’s people stubborn enough to keep demand high.
It’s got absolutely nothing to do with being ‘stubborn’ and all about being practical. As an example I myself live in a terraced house with no offroad parking and no ability to home charge.
If I was to have an EV I would be forced to use public chargers for 100% of my charging of an EV which would be considerably more expensive than home charging, thats before we even get into the issue of if the nearest chargers are working and available.
Your point about ‘expensive petrol cars’ is also a little confusing seeing as it common knowledge that EV versions are more expensive than the petrol / diesel versions of the same model (sometimes considerably more so)
Its extremely arrogant to brand people ‘stubborn’ just because they haven’t got access to the same facilities and conveniences that you yourself must obviously have!
