I'd suspect there's some price inflation going on with the grant in place - it's free monet for them and tge car still looks competitively priced.Scratch wrote: ↑Fri Oct 15, 2021 10:54 am In the present economic climate (disaster), I would suspect that the grant will either be reduced or removed. I did read somewhere a while ago that the UK has the lowest incentive in Europe regarding EVs. Don't know if that is still true?
I have also wondered whether the manufacturer's list price is artificially inflated to compensate for the grant and does not reflect the real, lower, price the car should be. Maybe that is irrelevant now, with the popularity and scarceness of EV cars now.
This is definitely happening with charging points. Those charging points all look about £350 overpriced . If that grant ended tomorrow, those £950 installations (costing the end user a net £600) would become £600 installations or thereabouts.
When installers are getting pod points/Ohmes etc for about £250 at trade, taking 3 hours to install them and adding about £120 kit for connection (earthing rods, clamps etc) - how do you get to a genuine £950 cost.
A mate of mine got a charger years ago when there was a £1000 grant - they charged £1000 on invoice (effectively free). A few years later the grant dropped to £800 and so did the invoicing cost. A Sparky friend reckoned at the time that if you could buy these basic chargers from CEF they'd cost about £200. Lots of price gouging making full advantage of the grant.