Author: Aimee Turner
Motability Operations and Nissan have agreed a strategic partnership to explore how Vehicle-to-Grid technology could reduce running costs for electric vehicle drivers. Motability is the most important fleet operator within the UK, chargeable for around 800,000 cars at anyone time, including around 35,000 wheelchair accessible vehicles (WAVs). The collaboration will concentrate on the British-built Nissan Leaf and goals to reveal how EVs can assist lower household energy bills while supporting the broader energy system. V2G targets lower running costs Vehicle-to-Grid technology allows electricity stored in an EV battery to be exported back to the grid in periods of peak demand, corresponding…
If there’s one word I hear greater than some other when talking to brokers, dealers, or funders, it’s affordability, writes Helen Thorne, spokesperson for the Leasing Broker Federation (LBF). Not electrification, not supply constraints, not even PCP resets – though, in fact, these matter. Affordability has turn into the organising principle behind how people buy, finance and use vehicles. When household budgets are under pressure and business confidence shrinks to sceptical cautiousness, customers are looking less at badges and more at monthly costs, flexibility, and predictability. The assumptions that shaped automobile buying for a decade, including brand loyalty, depreciation curves…
Vauxhall has revealed pricing and specification for the brand new Astra and Astra Sports Tourer, with the manufacturer introducing a price parity strategy. In a move the brand says is exclusive within the family automotive segment, the Astra hatchback and Astra Sports Tourer estate will probably be available at the identical on-the-road price across every trim level, meaning customers can select the larger Sports Tourer estate without paying a standard premium over the hatchback version. The Astra Sports Tourer offers as much as 1,634 litres of load capability with the rear seats folded down, compared with as much as 1,339 litres within…
Fast-growing brand BYD has approved Autoglym LifeShine as its preferred ceramic paint protection partner across its UK dealer network. Under the brand new partnership, BYD dealers will have the opportunity to sell and apply Autoglym LifeShine’s CeraFuse and the brand new CeraFuse Ultra vehicle protection systems. The agreement allows BYD sales teams to upsell Autoglym LifeShine products alongside the sale of latest and approved used vehicles, creating profit opportunities while helping to spice up customer satisfaction. Autoglym says the CeraFuse and latest CeraFuse Ultra products deliver exceptional protection for paintwork, glass and interiors, supported by a lifetime guarantee. To extend…
A tax tribunal has ruled that the reduced 5% domestic VAT rate can apply to electricity supplied for charging electric vehicles (EVs) on the general public network, quite than the usual 20% rate. The case was brought by community charge point operator Charge My Street which challenged the upper rate following advice from Deloitte’s tax specialists. Deloitte argued that existing VAT rules already treat the provision of lower than 1,000kWh of electricity per thirty days to an individual at any particular premises as domestic and that this threshold could reasonably cover public EV charging. Oliver Jarratt, director and VAT specialist for Deloitte…
A brand new initiative geared toward improving privacy protections within the used vehicle sector has been launched by the National Association of Motor Auctions (NAMA). The Data Deletion and Privacy Protection Certificate was developed with input from auction operators, compliance specialists and technology providers. It’s designed to set standards around how personal data stored in vehicles is handled, covering areas including deletion procedures, auditability and reporting, operational workflows and governance aligned with UK GDPR. Jonathan Butler, legal counsel on the Vehicle Remarketing Association (VRA) which is supporting thr initiative, said: “Legal evaluation and regulatory expectations clarify organisations handling vehicles – including…
Marshall Motor Group has been appointed as an official retail and aftersales partner for Geely Auto in Dartford, Kent. Trading as Geely Dartford Marshall, the brand new franchise will operate from The Bridge Business Park and can offer latest and used Geely Auto vehicles in addition to aftersales services including maintenance, real parts and accessories. The primary UK model for Geely – whose parent company Geely Holdings owns Volvo Cars, Polestar and Lotus in addition to the industrial vehicle Farizon brand – was the EX5, an all-electric SUV which launched in late 2025. The road-up is about to expand with the Starray…
iVendi’s chief executive James Tew talked to Automotive Management in regards to the motor finance opportunities for dealers and why rebuilding trust through transparency, earlier commission disclosure and safer ways to fund value-added products could mean the difference between profitable growth and the following compliance headache. In a post-redress world where consumer confidence is low, what does maximising motor finance opportunities actually mean for dealers in 2026? Primary is transparency. If people lack trust, then the one method to regain it’s by being transparent. That’s actually modified since commission disclosure, which got here into force in 2024. But there remains to…
Aimée Turner is deputy editor at Automotive Management, where she helps steer the every day and long-range editorial agenda for one in all the UK’s most-read B2B titles serving automotive retail. Award-winning and deadline-hardened, she specialises within the parts of the industry where the stakes are highest and the jargon is thickest: technology, market development and the business model shifts that resolve who thrives and who simply survives. With 20+ years in journalism across automotive and aviation, Aimée has built a repute for turning complex industry change into clear, usable insight. At Automotive Management she focuses on the EV transition,…
Aimée Turner is deputy editor at Automotive Management, where she helps steer the each day and long-range editorial agenda for one in all the UK’s most-read B2B titles serving automotive retail. Award-winning and deadline-hardened, she specialises within the parts of the industry where the stakes are highest and the jargon is thickest: technology, market development and the business model shifts that determine who thrives and who simply survives. With 20+ years in journalism across automotive and aviation, Aimée has built a status for turning complex industry change into clear, usable insight. At Automotive Management she focuses on the EV transition,…