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Introducing the All-New Transit Custom Plug-in Hybrid: Britain’s best-selling commercial vehicle, now more impressive than ever. Drive it for just £426 per month, with a £6,923 deposit and 0% APR! With the option to drive with zero tailpipe emissions when needed, it’s ideal for both city commutes and longer journeys. Designed to deliver strength and sustainability, it offers a targeted maximum towing capacity of 2,300kg*. Inside, the generous 5.8 cubic metres of load space can comfortably fit standard 8’ x 4’ boards or up to three Euro pallets laid flat. The ultimate van for today's business needs. Enquire about yours today: https://ow.ly/6gMU50TX47R #Transit #Custom #PHEV #Ford #Hartwell *Max. towing capacity limited by weight and weight distribution. Terms and conditions: Retail Only. Finance subject to status. Guarantees may be required. Further charges may apply subject to mileage and condition if the vehicle is returned at the end of the agreement. Failure to make payments on time may make obtaining credit in the future more difficult. Your vehicle may be repossessed if you do not keep up payments. Hartwell Automotive Group reserves the right to withdraw these programmes at any time, without prior notice. Fleet and Business Users with Special Terms are excluded. Subject to availability at participating Hartwell Automotive Group Dealers for vehicles, contracted between 1st October and 31st December 2024 and registered by 31 March 2025. Prices based on the manufacturer's recommended On The Road price excluding VAT. Contact your participating Ford Dealer for terms and conditions, and for a current personalised quotation. Saving is deducted from the manufacturer's On The Road Price (excluding VAT) for the relevant vehicle. Dealer Contribution is also deducted from the manufacturer recommended On the Road price: (excluding VAT) for the relevant vehicle. Certain advertised promotions cannot be used in conjunction with other manufacturer promotions or incentives. Vehicles shown are for illustration purposes only. This supersedes all previously advertised promotions.

Introducing the All-New Transit Custom Plug-in Hybrid: Britain's best-selling commercial vehicle, now better than ever. Available for only £426 per month, a deposit of £6,923 all at 0% APR! With the flexibility to drive with zero tailpipe emissions when required, it's perfect for both urban and long-distance work. Boasting a targeted maximum towing capacity of 2,300kg*, it combines strength with sustainability. Inside, the spacious 5.8 cubic metres of load space easily accommodates standard 8’ x 4’ boards or up to three Euro pallets laid flat on the floor. The ultimate van for today's business needs. Enquire about yours today: https://ow.ly/WAFe50TX47O #Transit #Custom #PHEV #Ford #Hartwell *Max. towing capacity limited by weight and weight distribution. Terms and conditions: Retail Only. Finance subject to status. Guarantees may be required. Further charges may apply subject to mileage and condition if the vehicle is returned at the end of the agreement. Failure to make payments on time may make obtaining credit in the future more difficult. Your vehicle may be repossessed if you do not keep up payments. Hartwell Automotive Group reserves the right to withdraw these programmes at any time, without prior notice. Fleet and Business Users with Special Terms are excluded. Subject to availability at participating Hartwell Automotive Group Dealers for vehicles, contracted between 1st October and 31st December 2024 and registered by 31 March 2025. Prices based on the manufacturer's recommended On The Road price excluding VAT. Contact your participating Ford Dealer for terms and conditions, and for a current personalised quotation. Saving is deducted from the manufacturer's On The Road Price (excluding VAT) for the relevant vehicle. Dealer Contribution is also deducted from the manufacturer recommended On the Road price: (excluding VAT) for the relevant vehicle. Certain advertised promotions cannot be used in conjunction with other manufacturer promotions or incentives. Vehicles shown are for illustration purposes only. This supersedes all previously advertised promotions.

“Under the current rules, each internal-combustion engine (ICE) car sold over the limit would leave its manufacturer on the hook for a £15,000 fine. Some carmakers have started selling fewer petrol cars in response. Stellantis, which owns the Fiat and Vauxhall brands, among others (and whose biggest shareholder part-owns The Economist’s parent company), even partly blamed the mandate for its recent decision to close a factory in Luton, though that is probably a stretch. Companies do have some room for manoeuvre. Selling lower-emission ICE cars can pull down the mandate. Taking that into account, New Automotive reckons the effective requirement for the industry in 2024 is closer to 18%. Carmakers can also buy credits from firms which have exceeded their own target, though making legacy European carmakers hand cash to nimbler Chinese rivals might be embarrassing for the government. Still, the industry as a whole will probably sell more EVs than the mandate requires in 2024, so ample credits should be available.” https://lnkd.in/eXP6cUFu

Spending on vehicles hits two-year low: Latest figures show millions of dollars less coming into the automotive industry from consumers in May. #vehicles #spending #consumers #may #retail #elctronic #cards #fuel #statsnz #statistics #carnews

The return of new-vehicle production and better availability for consumers continues to put downward pressure on used prices, said David Von Paris, director of product and market intelligence at J.D. Power. "We're seeing dealers giving up some of their sky-high profits that they had been making back in 2022 in order to get some of these vehicles sold because there are new alternatives among the lots now," Paris told Automotive News. Learn more from Automotive News: https://hubs.la/Q02J6vnN0 #UsedCars #UsedVehicles #Automotive #AutoIndustry #Auto #AutomotiveIndustry

If your business has a large fleet, are you aware of the latest EV legislation? Yet again the topic of incentivisation to move towards electric vehicles has hit the news this week with Stellantis (owner of Vauxhall) saying it is looking to close its Luton plant. https://lnkd.in/ejq_6vx9 Under the current mandate, a percentage of the cars that companies sell must qualify as zero-emission. EVs must make up 22% of a company's car sales and 10% of its van sales this year. For every car sale outside of that, firms must pay a £15,000 fine. That target is set to rise to 28% for cars and 16% for vans in 2025. The rules will then get tougher every year ahead of a complete ban of new petrol and diesel car sales. This could mean that fleet users, when looking to replace/ update their vehicles, may not be able to obtain the vehicles they need as manufacturers will be looking to achieve their EV quotas or face large penalties For more information and guidance on how to approach future fleet requirements, please reach out. #evfleet #valuethoughinsight #bbcnews

Used-vehicle supply is constrained, creating a competitive market for dealers and retailers looking to acquire used cars directly from consumers.  https://hubs.la/Q02QbT-s0 #autofinance #autoindustry

ZEV Mandates bring a monumental shift to the UK Fleet. Dealerships must ensure 10% of vans sold are electric this year, increasing to 16% in 2025 and 24% in 2026. With range anxiety a top concern and penalties for non-compliance steep, how will this impact vehicle operators? View more information on this legislation here: https://lnkd.in/eV77UjZX. #ZEV #FleetManagement #Legislation

Britain’s electric vehicle policy is “terrible” and threatens to bankrupt carmakers, the head of Vauxhall owner Stellantis warned on Thursday. Carlos Tavares said the UK’s quota regime, which requires manufacturers to meet #EV sales targets that rise annually, was set at “double the natural demand of the market” and would mean carmakers would have to sell vehicles at a loss to avoid fines. “To survive, companies have to stay in the black,” he said. “I will not sell cars at a loss.” He had urged UK transport secretary Mark Harper on Wednesday to make the targets easier to hit by allowing carmakers to count electric van sales and EV exports towards the targets, he told reporters. Unlike bringing back consumer incentives, which the government has scrapped, this measure would not cost the taxpayer anything, he said. The UK could use its post-Brexit autonomy to make a quick decision and make the changes to the regime “overnight”, Tavares added. The UK has a China-style quota scheme that is intended to shift the market away from petrol and diesel cars and towards #battery models by 2035. EV car sales targets rise annually from 22 per cent this year, to 28 per cent next year, and reach 80 per cent by 2030. EVs accounted for 15.5 per cent of car sales in the first three months of the year, according to official figures. For vans, which have separate quotas, this year’s target is 10 per cent.  #EV #batteries