BOOM ..Orders for electric vehicles overtake ICE cars (Fleet cars / Zenith)

[Mr Gus]

Orders for diesel and petrol cars at Zenith in June were surpassed by those for battery electric vehicles (BEVs) for the first time.

The top 10 FN50 leasing and fleet management company says that pure electric vehicles (EVs) accounted for more than half (54%) of orders in June, compared to almost a third (32%) in the same month last year.

Over the past 12 months, Zenith reports that 41% of orders were for BEVs.

Demand for electric vans also increased in June to account for 69% of van orders compared to 1% in June 2020. Over the past 12 months, demand for fully electric vans has built to account for almost one in three van orders.

Zenith says that salary sacrifice is helping company car drivers to transition to BEVs. In one scheme, 85% of orders have been for BEVs, with the remaining 15% for plug-in hybrid electric vehicle

Leech continued: “We are currently seeing that 97% of our forward orders through our salary sacrifice car schemes are battery electric or plug-in electric hybrids.

https://www.fleetnews.co.uk/news/latest ... e-ice-cars

[Paul_F]

Given the 0% BIK rate they attract at the moment, that's no surprise at all.

[Mr Gus]

Given the 0% BIK rate they attract at the moment, that's no surprise at all.

While benefit-in-kind (BIK) tax is payable on the car provided, if employees select EVs with zero emissions they benefit from a tax rate of just 1% in the current tax year.

(1% but close enough)

The fact is that enough people are taking the leap into full BEV via fleet to improve perception of BEV & also FEED into the second hand market!

[dan_b]

It was 0% last year, now it's increased to an almighty 1%.

Given the 0% BIK rate they attract at the moment, that's no surprise at all.

[Oliver90owner]

OK, Dan.

What percentage increase is that in real tetms (not an amount in real terms)? Mathematically it is a huge percentage. Infinite. We all need to be careful when statistics are concerned.

Could just be increased by 100%, if it rises to 2% next year.

One thing is certain - the government will get the taxes from somewhere and motorists are an easy target.

[Stinsy]

Yeah like when they made VED zero for low-emission cars. So everyone bought them. And then they put the tax up to £480 a year dressed up as a tax on “luxury” vehicles.

So now a Diesel Passat is £145 a year and the PHEV is £480.

You can expect a lot more of that. All the furlough money needs to be repaid and the interest on government debt is unlikely to stay as low as it is.

[Mr Gus]

Can you drop a decent readworthy link to that please Stinsy?

I'm familiar with the govt encouraging uptake ((stupidly)) of diesel, & how fitting of idiot govt that was, but not on mega-taxation of PHEV, however, if it is a class of phev that trundles around on a big subframe, pretends to be "green" when in fact it is a 4x4 for the city with anunderpowered battery that gets it a very minimal distance to cheat the process of taxation then i'm all with slapping that con trick by big companies down.

Were small hybrids taxed in the same manner or just to wheedle out the needless city safari vehicles?

[nowty]

Stinsy is correct up to a point, its got quite complicated.

From April 2017
https://www.gov.uk/vehicle-tax-rate-tables

Before April 2017
https://www.gov.uk/vehicle-tax-rate-tab ... march-2001

The car tax was zero for several years, I think it was for cars with less than 100g per 100km.

My BMW i3 (with range extender) is classed as a hybrid and was (and still is) zero car tax. But if it was one month newer it would have car tax. My 2 litre dirty diesel Ford Focus automatic car, because it has stop start technology is only £20 per year which means it must be classed as no more than 110g / 100km which is practically impossible, I cannot comprehend that.