Interesting that they now have 50 000 Electric car customers, 6.25%, I thought it would have been much higher.
I’m surprised at that too, given how hard they’ve been pushing them. That’s even less than the overall market which, I believe, is now at about 17% of new car registrations. Given that Motability customers don’t have many of the worries that are putting private buyers off (high up front costs, charger installation costs, residual value worries etc) I would have expected the take up to be higher, especially as many Motability customers do very low mileages which makes EVs more viable. I remain of the view that these mandate targets will have to change. No government can enforce a change of this magnitude if the general population doesn’t support it, and it is clear from the take up statistics that they don’t. Watch this space.