Neil Briscoe
speaker
879 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 28 Jul
Neil Briscoe’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And the government just isn't paying any attention to the secondhand EV market.
And they really, really need to.
We've seen a terrible crash in the last few years in used values for electric cars.
Yes.
which has really hurt the markets.
It's really hurt people who've gone back to trade in with their used EVs.
And it's a crucial point.
You've got to build up confidence in the second-hand market where electric cars are concerned, both in terms of residual value and in terms of their reliability and the longevity of the batteries.
And I do think the government, rather than putting up flashy headline-grabbing scrappy schemes like this, needs to be looking more at that end of things because if you can imbue confidence in the second-hand market, you'll build new sales as well.
That is unclear.
There is nothing so far in the criteria that have been laid out that says you have to be a certain distance from any one of those five major cities.
So, yeah, potentially you could be living 10 kilometers from, say, Cork City, and you could avail of the grant.
Potentially.
I mean, it's not that, incidentally, city dwellers can avail of this grant.
They're just less likely to get it because there's less funding given to them on the basis of their address.
Quite how that's going to be juggled still remains to be seen.
It's always going to be a busy day.
It's going to be like January 1st, slightly less so, because everyone's coming in on that day because they've put down their deposit, they've paid for their new car, they want their shiny new 262 plate, and they want to get it home and park it up on the driveway and wow all their neighbors with it.
Because in spite of common sense being a thing, that's still how we work.
There's an atavistic part of our brains that wants that new reg.
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