Two very interesting facts in that latest Times article.
Firstly “ the remuneration of Motability’s senior team is tied to targets ensuring its customers switch to electric. Its annual report revealed that executive remuneration and corporate targets were based on increasing the percentage of EVs in the fleet mix”. I wasn’t aware of this, and it goes a long way in explaining why Motability are so fixated on pushing EVs. I have been defending Motability, by saying that it is dealers who are at fault by pushing vulnerable customers towards EVs, even when not appropriate for them, in order to help towards their unachievable ZEV targets. However, I can now see that Motability are at fault as well. It would be very interesting to have some firm statistics on how many EVs are being returned each year as being unsuitable, but I doubt that we will get that information.
Secondly, I was fascinated to read that Motability have terminated 5,300 leases in just one year due to abuse, so the claims that “a handful of people abusing the scheme give us all a bad name” are extremely wide of the mark! On the one hand, Motability are to be congratulated for doing this, but on the other hand it is clear evidence that major reform of our benefits system is indeed needed, if so many people can abuse the system so easily – and that’s just the ones that were caught, which is probably only a small percentage!