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Pod Point takes EV message to schools with free chargepoint

Pod Point takes EV message to schools with free chargepoint

By Ralph Morton|2018-10-09T10:14:13+01:00October 3rd, 2018|Editor's blog, Industry articles, Newsletter|

Pod Point is hoping to educate school kids on the benefits of electric vehicles with its Electric Schools campaign

Stay safe in the summer: AlcoSense breathalsyers for the morning after

Stay safe in the summer: AlcoSense breathalsyers for the morning after

By Ralph Morton|2018-07-31T12:37:46+01:00July 31st, 2018|Editor's blog, Industry articles, News|

BBQ and beers - it's a typical summer scene. But do you drink to drive safely the morning after? AlcoSense breathalysers are one way to find out - more here in the Editor's blog

Business Car Manager acquires Motor Trade News

Business Car Manager acquires Motor Trade News

By Ralph Morton|2018-07-11T09:46:33+01:00July 11th, 2018|Editor's blog, Industry articles, News|

Business Car Manager has acquired the Motor Trade News website. Motor Trade News will commence publishing on July 24, 2018, while its new editor will be established and experienced journalist Chris Wright

Honda’s appeal to SME business users – and should you go petrol, diesel or hybrid?

Honda’s appeal to SME business users – and should you go petrol, diesel or hybrid?

By Ralph Morton|2018-06-20T12:29:08+01:00June 20th, 2018|Editor's blog, Industry articles|

HONDA is a brand that has always resonated strongly with SME businesses. It's no doubt down to that great combination of sportiness laced with lashings of dependable reliability. Think Type R. And Civic. Fizz served in an unbreakable champagne glass. And now Honda is coming back with a range of strong-looking products - there's the fabulous Urban EV Concept and [...]

Electric cars and leasing top agenda at Confused.com London Motor Show

Electric cars and leasing top agenda at Confused.com London Motor Show

By Ralph Morton|2021-07-21T11:44:06+01:00May 20th, 2018|Editor's blog, Electric Vehicles, Leasing|

Electric cars and leasing top agenda at Confused.com London Motor Show on the Business Car Manager SME Business Motoring Stand

VW to make the ultimate GTI

VW to make the ultimate GTI

By Ralph Morton|2018-05-12T07:04:10+01:00May 12th, 2018|Editor's blog, Industry articles|

If you're wanting to order a VW Golf as your next company car, then hold off a bit - you need to wait for the finished version of the ultimate GTI version, the VW Golf GTI TCR Concept

Maserati becomes automotive partner of Harlequins

Maserati becomes automotive partner of Harlequins

By Ralph Morton|2018-05-04T19:04:46+01:00May 4th, 2018|Editor's blog|

HARLEQUINS. A great team. My team. But we've had something of a, err, rocky season... So it was massively heartening to hear there is something to rev up the team's rugby: Maserati has been announced as the official automotive partner of the rugby club On the cards for this partnership, apparently,, is the opportunity to bring the brand to life [...]

The three most common questions asked about EVs

The three most common questions asked about EVs

By Ralph Morton|2018-04-25T08:38:49+01:00April 24th, 2018|Editor's blog, Owning and operating an EV|

What are the three most common questions asked before customers go electric? Ben Fletcher, Renault’s EV expert, explains what they are

Government causes further confusion over lack of clarity on Plug-in Car Grant

Government causes further confusion over lack of clarity on Plug-in Car Grant

By Ralph Morton|2018-03-15T14:22:35+00:00March 15th, 2018|Editor's blog, Industry articles|

SME business motoring is being hampered in the take up of electric cars by the Government’s lack of clarity on the Plug-in Car Grant. Which officially ends at the end of March 2018

Future Company Car Tax visibility absent in Spring Statement

Future Company Car Tax visibility absent in Spring Statement

By Ralph Morton|2021-07-21T11:51:23+01:00March 14th, 2018|Company car tax, Editor's blog, Industry articles, News|

I LIKE spring. It’s a time to look forward. Put the dark days of winter behind us. But the Chancellor’s Spring Statement gave us no forward visibility on Company Car Tax. No thoughts on bringing forward the company car tax incentives for electric vehicles. It left us still in the dark. Back in the bad days of winter. Forward visibility [...]

Put your feet up and let self-driving slippers come to you

Put your feet up and let self-driving slippers come to you

By Ralph Morton|2018-01-26T11:00:50+00:00January 26th, 2018|Editor's blog, Industry articles|

Did you ever expect that autonomous driving would bring you self-driving slippers? No, hadn't occurred to us either. But those clever chaps at Nissan....

Skoda’s new SME Direct aims to provide total company car care programme for small businesses

Skoda’s new SME Direct aims to provide total company car care programme for small businesses

By Ralph Morton|2018-01-10T19:23:58+00:00January 10th, 2018|Editor's blog|

Head of Skoda fleet, Henry Williams, discusses the benefits of the company's new SME small fleet product, Skoda SME Direct with editor Ralph Morton

Company car drivers given scandalous treatment in the Budget

Company car drivers given scandalous treatment in the Budget

By Ralph Morton|2017-11-30T21:41:39+00:00November 30th, 2017|Editor's blog, Industry articles|

Company car drivers have been given scandalous treatment in the Budget with an additional 1% tax on diesel drivers. Grossly unfair says editor Ralph Morton

The key issues facing SME small fleets

The key issues facing SME small fleets

By Ralph Morton|2017-11-20T12:36:40+00:00November 10th, 2017|Car news and reviews, Editor's blog, Industry articles|

Editor Ralph Morton met Arval's Elliott Woodhead to find out what the key issues are facing SME small fleets in a time when future choice appears confusing

Renault providing practical help for businesses wanting to go EV

Renault providing practical help for businesses wanting to go EV

By Ralph Morton|2017-11-20T12:36:32+00:00October 16th, 2017|Car news and reviews, Editor's blog, Industry articles, News|

GOOD to see that Renault is providing some practical help for small business and SMEs that want to go green by turning to electric vehicles. The company has just appointed two specialists to its fleet team specifically tasked with helping businesses transition to EVs (electric vehicles). Mathew Kiziuk The first is Mathew Kiziuk, who joins from the Renault [...]

What should business car managers make of Oxford’s world first Zero Emission Zone?

What should business car managers make of Oxford’s world first Zero Emission Zone?

By Ralph Morton|2017-11-20T12:36:32+00:00October 12th, 2017|Car news and reviews, Editor's blog, Industry articles, News|

IT’S a bold move by Oxford City Council and Oxfordshire County Council: a progressive elimination of vehicles with pollutant emissions, starting 2020 and completed by 2035. If the proposals are approved, via a six-week public consultation, Oxford says the zero emission zone would be a world first. So what are the zero emission zone proposals? Basically the proposals for Oxford [...]

David Hanna moves to old buddy James Douglas at Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles

David Hanna moves to old buddy James Douglas at Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles

By Ralph Morton|2017-11-20T12:36:28+00:00October 5th, 2017|Car news and reviews, Editor's blog, Industry articles, News|

SOME business news. Volkswagen tells me there's a new a new head of fleet for Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles: David Hanna. David is taking over from Chris Black who has left the organisation to 'pursue interests outside the Volkswagen Group'. Hanna is currently national fleet sales manager at Audi. So perhaps it's little wonder that he was chosen for the job. [...]

A car for less than the price of a phone

A car for less than the price of a phone

By Ralph Morton|2017-11-20T12:36:26+00:00September 28th, 2017|Car news and reviews, Editor's blog, Industry articles, News|

WHEN I’m speaking to small business owners about car leasing I often liken it your mobile phone contract. It’s a monthly fee that you pay to rent a phone and airtime. Car leasing is pretty much the same. You pay monthly rentals for a car over a certain amount of time and mileage. Come the end of the contract upgrade [...]

Company car drivers getting a raw deal on tax

Company car drivers getting a raw deal on tax

By Glynn Williams|2021-07-21T11:51:24+01:00September 27th, 2017|Car news and reviews, Company car tax, Editor's blog, Industry articles, News|

IT’S not easy being a company car driver. Don’t get me wrong, having a company car is still a big benefit: someone else pays for your car, pays for your insurance, pays for your business fuel, provides another car when your car goes wrong. Nothing too bad about all that. All you do as a company car driver is pay [...]

Audi 3D sound for rear seat passengers offers ‘audible’ luxury

Audi 3D sound for rear seat passengers offers ‘audible’ luxury

By Ralph Morton|2017-11-20T12:36:13+00:00August 30th, 2017|Car news and reviews, Editor's blog, Industry articles, News|

New Audi A8 I CAN’T wait to drive the new Audi A8. But perhaps not quite for the reasons you might imagine. I’m pretty sure the luxury driving experience will be exceptional – of that I have no doubt; but what I really want to experience in the new Audi A8 is the acoustics of the new sound [...]