New gov scrappage grant of 8500

The id3 gtx is very well priced in ireland. Will be a bargain with an additional 5k off

I see.👍

Government tweaked their VRT bands in favour of EVs and punitive for Diesels but also anything slightly performant petrol. Look at the Skoda Octavia VRS or Toyota GR Yaris . The prices are insane!

Because most diesel cars have been discontinued or are practically impossible to buy due to VRT so drivers are being forced into PHEV's which they don't want

Funnily enough VRT is actually a good bit lower on diesels then it is on petrols since they produce a lot less Co2. Used diesels get hit with Nox charges to compensate but new cars don't. But when it comes to big diesel SUV's theres no escaping the massive VRT bills tho

A couple of thoughts on this.

1. It's a small scheme. My guess is that any price increases like what happens with HTB and developers will be minimal.
2. It'll be the push for a couple of thousand people who have been murmuring about getting something newer without a good enough excuse.
3. My car just about falls within the criteria, but I don't really fancy spending 17k on something that wouldn't excite me very much. My car is fairly flawless, for now anyway. I don't think there is a scheme out there that'd make me switch.
4. The scale is small enough not to distort the market, but big enough to learn about who is willing to sign up and the demand for such a scheme.

I’ve a neighbour with a full ev for over a year and still I see the granny cable out the window of a room for charging it. Hadn’t even an outside socket never mind an ev charger - daft really with a full ev.

It's a fair enough set of rules. Need to own the scrappage car for 12 months, must be taxed and insured when applying and an out of date nct is OK.

I can see a few getting caught out with motortax. People may have an old car not taxed so they will have to back tax as the old swap owner trick cannot be used or they will fail the 12 months ownership rule.

Rural Ireland has always had a very low uptake in EV purchases hence why the scheme is being allocated more to rural areas

Victim mentality. The pilot is a great idea, and hope loads of rural drivers take up their unfair allocation 😂.

Being factual isn't 'biased', nor is posting something factual that you dislike 'profoundly simplistic' and 'totally inaccurate'.

It is factual and accurate to state the the lifecycle emissions of EVs including battery manufacturing, recycling, and the carbon intensity of national grids is analysed when comparing how green EVs are to other types of vehicles.

I'll hold no truck with climate change deniers and nor should any other user, the time for 'debate' on climate change is over and people pretending established scientific fact and rigorous research is 'simplistic, biased and childish' don't have a leg to stand on.

Seeing as how you couldn't read two posts further, perhaps you can point out the 'bias, profound simplicity, and total inaccuracy' in this comment and its link: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124521923/#Comment_124521923

Exactly. The grant is a con.

When they had the grant for upgrading central heating in house, the plumbers you had to goto had their price much higher than a regular plumber not registered. It was cheaper to get the regular plumber without the grant.

Grants just make the base price increase.