I hadn’t heard about the “Greener Scotland” initiative. It must be a high price to pay for Scottish tax payers. Does the average Scot support it, or would they prefer that the money used for that be used on reducing university tuition fees, prescription prices or council tax bills?
My pal who traded in his Jaaaag for an inventory model Tesla , getting a whopping discount off it , a good trade in price , and seven years interest free finance plus a free home charger certainly thought it was a good deal , especially since there is a bank of chargers in the public park at the bottom of his road where he can charge the vehicle for free , as well as being able to charge at work for free as well - he hardly ever has to pay anything for charging . Moreover in some places , EVs don’t pay parking charges either ! The final thing is that when he uses it for work , even though he has no outlay for fuel , he still gets to claim his 45p/mile business use allowance !
Of course , most of this electricity is now generated by renewable sources , and eventually just about all of it will be , so in the longer term it may be a good thing .
Mind you , if I have to go somewhere for work , since we no longer have to produce petrol receipts to claim mileage ( because of EV drivers being able to claim ) , I can use my old farts bus pass to go anywhere in Scotland for nothing , and still claim the travel allowance ; I only did it once on a short journey , just to prove the loophole existed , then when I questioned it was told “well done” . It seems that it is a known loophole , but because they aren’t allowed to insist on petrol receipts anymore , no one wants to do anything about it - so in theory I could take the bus for free from Glasgow to Inverness or Aberdeen and claim car mileage for the round trip at 45p per mile , pocketing something like £150 ! My conscience wouldn’t let me do that , the one trip I did claim for was about seven miles , just to make the point .
It does seem that the world has gone crazy , and there is a lot of potential for abuse .
As to support , it depends on which side of the fence you sit on ; I won’t buy an EV and , being 66 , am confident I can keep my W124 running as long as I need to , and will probably get another R129 when I retire ; I’m hoping that with all the political shenanigans over the next few years that the prices of used petrol vehicles with 6 , 8 or 12 cylinder engines will soften , and given I will have the E220 estate to use day to day , an SL would only be for high days and holidays , hence I will possibly look for a V-12 , that being the one engine configuration I’ve never owned , and the M120 is basically just two 300-24 engines joined together , and I’m already very familiar with them .
I can’t see me ever buying an EV with its whiny electric motors , I can hear them coming at anything above parking speeds and I can’t imagine anything more awful . My petrol S Classes were quieter than these electric contraptions , and they were nice places to be .
We don’t pay university tuition fees here in Scotland . At least Scottish students don’t , which is why the universities take so many foreign students who do pay fees .
Just another piece of nonsense , given it reduces places for Scottish students in Scottish universities.
Prescriptions , and eye tests , have been free for years .
Oh , and my council tax came down this year compared to last year .
I don't even let them wash my car. Get a detailer with a good reputation to do it. they are doing it daily. Should take about 3 days even on a new car. Because its new, it does not mean the paintwork is pristine. The cars have been parked up, transported on trains, boats, transporters. A decent detailer may even be cheaper than the dealer. Every car I buy is collected by my detailer for ceramic coating even before I see it then returned to dealership fort he handover to me
