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If Brexit is self harm is not leaving the union self harm. Do you not have devolved powers. The snp got less votes than ukip but ukip got no seats. you right the staus quo will never change it’s all rigged. even if you do gain independence it will mean very little, like brino. Snp cannot run a pissup in a brewery, non of them can all they there for is to implement the policy of the agenda set by outside forces.
The Scottish Government runs the country in relation to matters that are devolved from Westminster. This includes: the economy, education, health, justice, rural affairs, housing, environment, equal opportunities, consumer advocacy and advice, transport and taxation.
Government means: the system used for controlling a country, city, or group of people
Covid showed that, more than ever.
Do they not have free universities, prescriptions, Baby boxes in scotland.
The Scottish government also introduced free dental care for several groups in 2021. For the last 20 years, people living in the country aged over 65 have qualified for free personal care.
All things in england we have to pay for. Yet england, the south and london is to blame for scotlands issues and brexit.
In all my life I’d never had a choice on if we in or out of the eu in the 1st place till 2016 and how long should we wait till we have another vote on rejoining for example, a generation, Same for scotland. There’s pro’s and con’s to all situations.
The problem with leaving the eu is it’s like a bad divorce one side just hates it(the eu and the rejoiner) and that’s the reason you should stay in that relationship is it. I get it scotland didn’t vote for it, but everytime something needs deciding and a vote takes place that effects the union and it go’s against you the answer is always going to be to leave the union.
Personally I don’t care get it done, Maybe they’ll build a border like with mexico or like the romans did. lets go back to thosedays. The eu wants us to suffer and have done everything in their power to make us suffer for daring to leave the eu. Yet it’s our fault for deciding to leave. That kinda blows any scotish independece out of the water imo as then you want to join the eu whom want’s to become the united states of europe and have it’s own tax and army.
The union has been in place for a long time longer than the eu the problem with the eu is that it became a political union rather than a trading union and What i beleive is, the powers in place are put there to give us the illusion we have a say but we do not.
All sides are controlled by those that hold the debts we all in and are taken out in our names. The great reset is coming, the wef will see to it. They cause the chaos and offer the solutions, they want us the people divided as then we are weak. To have globalism you must destroy nationalism and why is it the case that scots or the welsh are allowed to be nalionists but if the engish are they racists. It’s all to control us as divided we are weaker, brexit was against the grain as even the usa etc camout and said it ws a bad idea, even imf that it would be this and that that never happened and now it’s because of this crisis and that crisis and rhe next will probally be china and not us leaving the eu.
wtch how eveyone was wanting shot of boris but the next one will be worse and thats the way it always works. Is biden better for the world than trump, thtat why people should be very carefull what they wish for imo. None have the peoples best interests at heart, however much they say they do. Thats why no one is pushing for peace in ukraine but more war and sales of more weapons and to prolong it as long as possible as it serves the purpose setout and creates the crisis, then they can offer the preplanned solutions and make profits from us the people and enslave us further to debt. Meanwhile we argue about stuff they don’t care about so we don’t see whats really going on.
I ordered 1st August 2021 …. So just over a year …. And not even a build date. In the meantime I don’t have a car and struggle to do anything.
That’s the worst situation to be in Alexandra and I totally feel for those in your postion. Who just joining the scheme.
I guess you could maybe get something used for a bit or try and get something off the scheme. Till things go back to normal abit. Some have even had their orders cancelled and are back to square one.
Personally I see this going on for maybe another 18 months at least and long waits for cars especially for the most popular cars and ev’s.
I guess they will say when you contact them and tell them you want to hand back the car you have and cancel you current order and you’re no longer wanting another car on the scheme at the end of your lease.
For what ever reasons you have for doing so. Imo it should be no issue at all.
I recently left the scheme also but handed the car back early and they was ok about it. They reduced the early termination fee to £50 instead of £250 and in the current climate it’s understandable with such high ap’s and long waiting times. Athough if you have home charging an ev could be alot cheaper to run.
I doubt they will charge you for the install, but what it would meen is that if you was to rejoin the scheme they would not fit another charger or if you changed address. Going by what they have on the site about the charger installation.
We’ll only pay for your first chargepoint to be installed, for your first fully electric car. So if you move home and you need a new chargepoint, you’ll need to pay for this and it could cost you from £750.
Did they send you any terms and conditions of the install. if they did I’d read them, if they didn’t then there’s no terms and conditions.
Yep totally, The search is not as good as it once was, you cannot search via mpg anymore and they could of added some new filters for ev ranges etc and pretty much 2k+ max is almost 50% of the cars on the scheme.
Theres no drop down menu from menu bar so gotta click more times to get to theadvanced search. Pretty glad I’m not looking for cars on the scheme for myself anymore, but am for others to help them and give them options.
Many don’t have the ability to charge at home at such a low cost, I cannot change energy supplier anyways and to lock in a deal right now before costs rise in oct best rate I can get is over 50p/kw currently paying 27p. so makes no real sense to lockin before oct or until closer to oct.
It does seem though that ev user’s who can home charge are being subsided by others who cannot or don’t own an ev and i do see ev’s getting more expensive cost wise moving forwards.
I don’t think for many you can compare the running costs of an ev against an ice car into the price of buying a car off the scheme as for many an ev is not a viable option for them right now.
It would imo be better to compare like for like as right now if you can charge at home an ev’s going to be on top. If you do have the ability for home charging then i would say an ev is a very good option but my other concern also is waiting at chargers in a queue for a charge, especially if that’s you only source and what will be the cost come oct for that.
What you’ve put forward is the case for an ev over an ice car rather than a fair comparison of buying a car over the scheme. The other issue is the lack of choice on the scheme and larger vehicles. The kona imo is to small for some. NISSAN ARIYA ELECTRIC HATCHBACK 160KW ADVANCE 63KWH 5DR AUTO is £7,299 ap. It is really the only vehicle imo most would actually want over the berlingo, vivaro options are very limited in larger sizes.
The other thing was that i could get the car off the scheme in 4 weeks and when you need to change due to it not being suitable any more thats a huge issue. Some people have been waiting over a year and then have their order cancelled. Some just cannot be in that position and is one of the other reasons I left the scheme.
You won’t pay for road tax on a car not on the scheme as you transfer your exemption to it.
I used the minimum value for the cars worth after 5 years, I predict it might be worth upto 12.5k. 50% of original value.
Like i said what’s best may differ due to your usage and circumstances and i worked it out over 5 years as thats how long my hp term is for and the 0% looks like a real good deal right now as now it’s 6.8% but they give you a £2k contribution.
Which is why I jumped when i did and gave back the car early. I also got my ap back pro-rata and 1 years gcb so got £814.04 back from Mb.
Another thing is changing a car every 3 years, I am not so good with either now. As it’s not so good for the planet and have come to the conclusion maybe we should all be keeping cars for as long as possible and not scrapping them for new ones as the goverment has done in the past also and is push us all towards doing now. So thats another reason i plan to keep this car for longer, maybe alot longer and am doing my bit by doing so.
I agree paul I don’t think increased energy cost have filtered into otr prices of new cars yet and the fact that some have increased in the last few years by as much 26% already and how much has the allowance increased by, for years and years it has not kept up and now we are really seeing that gap grow, with increased ap’s.
Prices now are the new normal and will increase further imo and then may fall back to current levels.
Most manufacturers plans are to make less car than before but make more profits. Like audi dropping the a1 and q2 from the line up to concentrate on premium models and other makers like nissan, Hyundai etc making more premium cars starting at almost 40k as more and more ev’s hit the production line, less and less cheaper alternatives will be available.
What then for the scheme and for us in general with mobility issues.
I ordered my new car 15 months ago YES 15 months ago only to be told that they have cancelled my order. So I’m back to looking for a new car again its a night mare
That’s so crazy and one reason of the many of why I left the scheme. It’s happening way to much. almost a year and a half wait to be told sorry we cannot Provide what you ordered. Also for others the cars arrive minus stuff and I bet now when you reorder the ap’s are much higher as are the prices of those new cars.
Mb don’t seem to care one bit about it.. what if your condition has changed and the car you have is no longer suitable.
Totally feel for you Janet.
Ginny I Know you won’t and cannot get any private lease better than the scheme as mbo don’t pay vat on the purchase of the car.
I decided to buy on hp rather than a pcp contract or lease and yes I am paying more but if you then take into account a 3k ap for example after discounting the gcb every 3 years. As I have never extended past 3 years in 11 years of using the scheme as your paying the same as you would for another new car. I have never addded any extras either. Ap’s for me are getting to high to justify leasing via the scheme now.
A 3k ap is £83.33 a month on top of the allowance, which is currently £279.5 a month(£64.50 a week which will rise each year) so a total of £362.83 a month combined.
The allowance over 5 years is a minimum of £16,770 + (1 /3 of 25k =£8,333 min value of car in 5 years) Total is £25,103
Car i bought was almost 25k, I put 2.5k down and lucky for me and one reason i went for it when i did was they was offering 0% so I’m saving at least 3 or 4k in interest.
I am paying about £395 a month for the car and insurance and after 5 years I will have an asset worth at least 1/3 of the car, depends on the mileage i do and that’s another reason, right now it’s the lowest it’s ever been, Half of what i was doing before which was 12/15k a year.
I’m gonna phone them soon and take out the service plan which is around £25 a month so £420 a month.
I plan to keep the car for longer than 5 years as in 5 years I predict i would of done only 25k/30k miles.
So it depends how you look at it, for me that’s affordable and I found a car that maybe i would not look at on the scheme but for me it works and I am liking it more and more each day.
No cars perfect imo but it’s exactly what we need and an auto, if was a manual I would maybe buy used but on an auto I’d prefer new.
Yes I’ll have to pay for some wear and tear items but overall the service plan covers most stuff especilly if you doing less mileage as i am. When 5 years is up I can decide what to do, keep it for longer. Which I probally will as most new cars are pretty good for 1o years after that they start to need more and more parts changing and with goverment polices for 2030/2035 and how that effects the scheme and the cars on offer. I might never rejoin.
did any one ask about what mbo views are on waiting 11 months or for some even longer for a car for the order to be then cancelled by the manufacturer.
<p style=”text-align: left;”>Thanks for your input rox and the straight forward way you have put it – you have changed my mind – having the box in the kitchen still protects from hackers of the key whilst hopefully it is an open door – no pun intended – for those who would break in and use violence if needed.</p> I suspect you will have made a number of us review the logic of keeping it hidden and it possibly leading to threats and violence from anyone willing to break into our home in the first place – so once again – thank you
No problem at all, Some times logic is sound but everything we do has an effect and at the end of the day our own safety is more important. You know 1st hand what someone breaking into your house feels like and that would definitely alter someones logic and that imo is the worst part of it all.
Hopfully it never happens to anyone but we all know it will to someone at some point and all I hope is they stay safe.
Sites get hacked and they get your email and password and any other details on you. They then target you with a scam email. I have had one of those emails before ajn or they try to login using those details to other sites.
I now use a password manager and it generates a different new password for any site, allthough if someone really want’s to get in they can run some program and run a text file with a dictionary or try every combo possible so is only a matter of time till they would get in..
Many years ago now, had a hacker login to my ebay and listed a brand new hdtv for sale buy it now for 1p
A well made case rox – and given your experience you have a close hand understanding of what is possible – perhaps I will leave keys in a faraday box downstairs – but not insight of the front door. I have family in the police and doctors and nurses – I know how being close to the action can make you focus on all the possible worst outcomes – police and medics usually get in volved when things aren’t good. However on balance I think you make a valid point – I hadn’t considered threats and violence to get a Kona – especially one I don’t own. My faraday box arrives tomorrow – perhaps I will find a home for it in the kitchen.
Yeah totally, I guess growing up in London and having school friends allover london, has made me look at things very differently from many and having thought about certain scenarios beforehand has made me very streetwise and saved me a few times as you know what to do instantly, other didn’t when those situations arose and it ended badly for them.
Who knows what or whom could be targeted thesedays in the world we live in. With values of cars rising and imo it’s not just highend cars targeted, In hull earlier this year a house was targetted and 3 cars was taken, two remained missing. a grey Seat Ateca and a white Abarth.” Not exactly your 100k range rovers many think are the targets.
I don’t live in london now but in the very north of the midlands, but it’s something thats a nationwide problem and if someone is willing to enter your home, I’d say alot of them nowadays are willing to do damage to someome to get what they want or if confronted.
I think leaving the faraday box dowstairs is the sensible option. hopefully it never happens, but to someone it will that’s the sad part.
Where I used to work used to get robbed quite regularly and it was drumed into us at no point try to be a hero, as all money, which was very little onsite was insured. Scary though someone pointing a gun at you, or someone walking into the cabin from the yard not knowing. The company used to send all employes on interpersonal skills course due to the nature of the job and they really help in Most real world situations.
Hi Rox – you have got me thinking – I am aware of trackers but know little about them – not sure how that would work with Motability – I think if I had bought the car I would give the idea very serious consideration – I know some insurance companies encourage cameras in your car and discount for it. Is there a similar policy for trackers – I wonder if Motability have considered it – I suppose it would relate directly to how many Motability vehicles are stolen – interesting tho
I guess so as when I recently got insurance of the scheme it asked if vehicle had tracker fitted as it did camera, alarm etc. I have a dashcam as why to many scammers thesedays throwing themesleves on people bonnets etc.
There different forms of trackers, even ones that you put in you bike/bicycle frame. Some are battery operated and you stash them somewhere in the car and others can be hard wired into the car and have bettery backup. Some can track more than just location thesedays. Can even track your kids with one.
Halfords do them or you can goto a company and get one fitted and some offer different levels of support and subscriptions depend on level of cover you want and how much your car is worth.
https://www.trackerfit.co.uk/stolen-vehicle-trackers/car-trackers.html abit of info on that page and different stuff they offer.
As for mb as far as i know it’s only in certain circumstances they put in trackers and not for theft. I have been thinking about getting one for my new car, that i just got it in june (off the scheme) but is only a suzuki Vitara but is keyless entry and start. So is something i need to look more into myself.
Sounds about right tillyman, Mainly they park it up somewhere quiet for a period of time to see if it has a tracker fitted. Often if it has you’d get it back or like in your case the traffic warden’s probally put the plate into the system to check and it’s come back as stolen, as it would most likely of, if they’d parked it on a main road and a police car passed it with anpr.
Right now there does seem to be a different breed of blazen criminals about from those of the past, that don’t care about human life and come masked, tooled up, mob handed and just force entry. That’s the most dangerous situation, the police seem to or can do very little about house burglaries now or these sort of crimes. Which have even their own name now Hanoi burglary. A ‘Hanoi burglary’ describes a crime in which burglars break into a house to steal car keys. The term is named after the first police operation launched to tackle the problem.
Pretty muchin the same way as these moped gangs or those that target cash machines or ram raid shops, with cars they stole, they lawless.
How anyone would feel after, if you was asleep and woken by someone in your bedroom threating you, where’s the keys and the trauma of it all. It’s bad enough them just being in your home. My kids are upstairs also. It may even be as you come home and just entering the house and they pounce, could be anywhere nowadays, i have seen quite a few videos on youtube, scary stuff.Not trying to scare anyone but sometimes sometimes actions we take to protect stuff puts us in more danger.
Someone on the forum had their car stolen recently, off their driveway if i remember. Could of even been towed it away that happens also, best outcome imo, is no one is hurt.
Is very little one can do really if your targeted and it’s becoming more an more common. So my view is if they gonna target you, may as well just make it easy for them and less dangerous for yourself and those you love that there at the time, It does happen and is it really worth the risk for a car that’s insured and being on the scheme you don’t even own.
I am not saying you should leave the keys in plain view as then that might attract opportunist crime But if someone is determined taking the key upstairs ain’t gonna stop them.
I get the pouch but i don’t get why you take it upstairs with you when you goto bed for example.
If someone really wants to steal your car they will steal it. Often by breaking into your house to get the keys or by following you and then hijacking your car.
So my keys stay downstairs.
All actions have consequences many don’t consider, like the car makers didn’t when they made cars impossible to steal without the keys and that was criminals then targeted the keys. I guess the one good thing about them cloning the signal is no violence is needed.
There are alot less cases of car theft nowadays than there was imo, but that’s mainly down to less joyriders or some just needing a buggy home so they stole a car. I know this as I worked in the car recovery and removal industry for quite a while. Then others are stolen for parts and you just find a shell and have been striped or they’re sent abroad in containers or used to commit robberies.
If your really worried about your car I’d say get a tracker as at least that way your safe, if you was targetted you just hand the key over and than activate the tracker.
Had an email from me dealer yesterday ordered my GLA sept 21 he has told me GLA 180 all orders are being cancelled and they are stopping production so now I have to look for a new car after waiting 11 months already
What an absolute Joke? Toally feel for you nikki, also ap’s on other cars have risen alot I bet since you did order the gla and now have to wait however long for something else, what if that then gets cancelled.
This was another factor in me leaving the scheme recently and mb don’t seem to care one bit as I had an offer to good to ignore, that ticked all my boxes where as all merc’s didn’t as the dealer is to far from me and adaptive cruise doesn’t come as standard. Everyday It’s seems my choice to leave the scheme was the right one and got my new car in 4 weeks.
You cannot blame the customer service representative’s. They doing their job and are following company guidelines setout by those above and are told very little of what really is going on or what mbo’s plans are.
https://www.motabilityoperations.co.uk/ you need to look at not https://www.motability.co.uk/ for the true agenda at play.
When we spoke about me leaving the scheme and my many reason’s for doing so, he said he agreed with pretty much all of them personally and understood exactly why and was valid and that they had many calls regarding the same issues I had highlighted.
Yet what is MBO doing about it. Offering a £250 otp if and when you get a new car on the scheme, even if that is taken up by the 600k users of the scheme. Thats £150,000,000 but in reality a small percentage of there overall profits even in the past 6 months https://www.motabilityoperations.co.uk/our-performance/financial-reports/ Half year highlights 2022 £598.7m profit / £3,480.1mCapital Reserves as at 31st March 2022 /90%Renewal rate at end of lease. I predit this next 6 months profits will be even larger.
<p style=”text-align: center;”>
Notwithstanding a lower volume of vehicles
sold – down 30,000 units compared with 2021
(a consequence of an increasing volume of
lease extensions for existing customers
pending the delivery of their new vehicles)
the proceeds from the disposal of operating
lease assets saw a 8.4% increase in the six
months to March 2022 compared with prior
year, reflecting the elevated sales values
achieved in the used-car market</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>Profit for the period was £598.7m, representing
a 10.3% return on assets (above our long-term
target of 1.5%). This above target result is
primarily driven by two effects:
• A gain of £403.9m from vehicle sales (2021:
£78.4m), reflecting the buoyant used-car
market referenced above. The strength of
the used-car market can be directly linked
to the new-vehicle supply-side challenges
faced globally. This has resulted in significant
switching of demand to used cars. Our vehicle
remarketing operation has been able to
effectively capitalise on the conducive
demand conditions in the used-car market,
with average sales values of £15.5k (up 50%)
on prior year not only driving increased
revenue, but leading to crystallised profits
versus the net book value. Whilst this upside
is in part a result of used-car values
exceeding our previous forecast expectations</p>
I got a new vehicle in 4 weeks off the scheme. Not in months and months time or even a year/s which if your car has become unsuitable for reason’s beyond your control, what can the scheme offer you.I also terminated early, I also mentioned the huge unaffordable ap’s and the lack of choice with only just over 500 cars on the scheme a 1/4 of what was available in the past and that many was just different variants of the same make & model. I don’t see anything changing in the market and many say this is the new normal for the car industry and they’re not going back to how it was before, even with reduced supply they are making huge profits as are MBO from used car sales and those extending lease as in the 2022 report. The next report I think will be even more profits and those profits are not really being given back into the schem all they give are token gesture’s and as we move towrds 2030 it will only get worse for those on the scheme especially if you have no off road parking and those that cannot afford such high ap’s but do not qualify for a grant. Things need to change and be looked into these are huge sums and even bonds.
<p style=”text-align: center;”>The Group continues to pursue a strategy aimed
at diversifying sources of funding, protecting
structural liquidity and maintaining a well-
laddered debt maturity profile. Following the
issue of inaugural bonds under our social bond
framework in January 2021, the Group raised
incremental financing in January 2022 via a
£500m 20-year GBP bond. This bond provides us
with strong liquidity headroom as we look
ahead and in the context of the repayment of a
£400m bond liability due in July 2022.</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>Of the Group’s £1,093.8m cash and cash
equivalents balance reported at 31 March 2022
(March 2021: £437.8m), £83.1m is ring-fenced
(March 2021: £149.5m) in respect of insurance
liabilities in MO Reinsurance Ltd. The Group
retains a £1.5bn Revolving Credit Facility to
provide liquidity headroom which was
undrawn at 31 March 2022. Our corporate
credit ratings (A1/A, both with a Stable
outlook; S&P and Moody’s respectively)
remain an important enabler of our access
to financing at competitive rates from the
debt capital markets.</p>
So someone is making and taking profits from the scheme. That is clear as to how much that is unclear as is alot of the accounts it’s just generic and list of a breakdown of the actual cost and items related to those cost of running the scheme. even if there small percertages of huge amounts we talking that’s alot of money, leaving the scheme and not put back directly into the scheme. just had to post this and get it out there.https://www.motabilityoperations.co.uk/our-performance/
Tried to post a screen shot of the the Group’s corporate structure, from the above page, but it won’t allow it.
Even more info can be found here https://www.motabilityoperations.co.uk/Social_Bond_Framework_2020.pdf
Russia-Ukraine war: Kyiv ‘endangering civilians’ by using schools and hospitals as military bases
Amnesty International has accused the Ukrainian army of endangering civilians and violating humanitarian law in their fight against Russian invaders.
The human rights NGO said Ukrainian forces in Kharkiv, Donbas and Mykolaiv had in some cases established bases and operated weapons systems in populated residential areas, including in schools and hospitals.
The group said such tactics violate international humanitarian law as they turn civilians into targets for Russian strikes.
“We have documented a pattern of Ukrainian forces putting civilians at risk and violating the laws of war when they operate in populated areas,” Agnes Callamard, Amnesty International’s Secretary General, said.
While the group said the practices “do not in any way justify indiscriminate Russian attacks”, Dr Callamard added: “Being in a defensive position does not exempt the Ukrainian military from respecting international humanitarian law.”
Amnesty claimed that it was not aware that the Ukrainian military who located themselves in civilian structures buildings had asked or assisted civilians to evacuate, which it said was a “failure to take all feasible precautions to protect civilians”.
Problem we had with bt broadband was as a family our usage was mainly when the kids got in from school and after work so peak time. We had an unlimited connection but they throttled down our connection at peak times as they said we was having excess usage or whatever the exact term they call it was i forget. The rest of the day except for hols it was not used at all. Not had any of that with virgin or sky when we had it. Safe to say I’d never get bt bb ever again and it wasn’t the cheapest option either at the time.
Glad I am no longer funding their project’s, what I think needs looking into is who’s getting wages/ funds etc from these other companies and those that mbo https://www.motabilityoperations.co.uk/ giving money to for projects. The cash cow that keeps giving? hard to believe the banks do all this for zero return.
There’s no reason other than greed for them not to allow people to order cars earlier knowing the waits are 6 months to a year. Motability really are like pigs in a trough taking in as much as they can to get fat on disabled peoples money. But people, you can feel good in the knowledge the Motability Lottery hands a multi million pound good causes grant to a cause you never heard and will probably never use. IT’S YOUR MONEY!!!
In 2022 we are launching new grant programmes to provide even more support to other charities and organisations in areas where our research and insight has shown opportunities to have the greatest impact for disabled people. These grant programmes will help to address the challenges that disabled people face accessing transport right now, while Motability continues its research and innovation work into longer-term solutions to make all transport accessible.
We are using £50 million of the donation we received in 2021 to expand our support for charities and other organisations for the next three financial years ending March 2025.
The first two new grant programmes, Community Transport Grants and Wheelchair Sector Grant Programme are launching on 1 April 2022 with the remaining programmes launching throughout the year. More information on these programmes will be provided when available.
Charities and organisations can apply for grants from £100,000 up to £4 million. Each application will be assessed consistently against our criteria to ensure fair and transparent awarding of funding and to deliver the greatest impact to as many disabled people as possible.
Motability is committed to our vision, that no disabled person shall be disadvantaged due to poor access to transportation. This includes all disabled people in need of assistance with their personal transportation, not just disabled people who choose to use the Motability Scheme.
Indeed phil Over 5 years you’d pay no less than £16,770 at the current allowance rate (which rises every year) plus any ap you payed. I am paying more than I was on the scheme but not by much when you consider current ap’s.
I am buying all of the car on hp over 5 years not on pcp contract, where you still have to pay X amount to own it at the end or hand it back. That would be cheaper but then you have to find the lump sum.
Another of my reason for leaving the scheme is, I think replacing a car every 3 years ain’t so good for the enviroment. Neither is scrapping cars to replace them with newer ones, before the lifetime of them has run it’s course, as the footprint of a new car is very high.
We should all be keeping cars for as long as possible, but the goverments, car makers and Mb etc wouldn’t make huge profits then would they.
I did buy a new car a mild hybrid, but I do intend to keep it for quite some time as an ev won’t work for us not having off street parking. Especially with 2030/2035 coming and other policies I am sure new cars will be forced to comply to more green policies and will become more expensive and they will sell less but make more profits than ever.
The scheme will be forced to adopt that also and many will not be able to afford the ap’s or get anything suitable for there needs. Just like many people won’t be able to afford cars at all. Just like how many cannot afford to buy a house. You will own nothing and be happy.
