Would you think there is any chance of getting a WAV grant now?

[Shallow Hal]

Peter from MD Motors told me during the week that all the WAV grant money was gone in three months,was out in Robinsons on Friday,they had two vans on the lifts that they were converting plus a few in the yard waiting to be converted all with the MD logo on them,my BYD was there along with another Atto 3.

[John m]

was going to wait until January to change but I doubt my taxi will last that long.

Not sure to just buy a newer one now or rent until 2024 maybe.

Do you NEED to change it ?If you have a few years left on it put a few grand into it a new engine fitter wont cost a huge amount Lad in Glasnevin will rebuild it for under a Grand .Gearbox rebuild not to expensive .Full overhaul for about two grand if you got two or three more years out of it .Panel might be the man to advise you .

[Belker]

6. Level of Grant
The levels of grant payable by NTA are as follows:
 New Wheelchair Accessible Vehicle (<3,000kms and <3 months old) €17,500
 Wheelchair Accessible Vehicle less than one year of age €17,000
 Wheelchair Accessible Vehicle less than two years of age €14,000
 Wheelchair Accessible Vehicle less than three years of age €13,000
 Wheelchair Accessible Vehicle less than four years of age €9,000
 Wheelchair Accessible Vehicle less than five years of age €5,000
 Wheelchair Accessible Vehicle less than six years of age €4,000

@ 1990, It makes no sense to me why you would trade a saloon fer a part-worn WAV with those grants,
while you could scrap a saloon fer an new EV saloon with about 25k worth of grants ??

Given a choice of a Wheelie with grants or an EV with grants, I would take the EV every day.

I never had a saloon. have always had a wheelchair taxi.

I didn't know that, that changes things quite a bit.

I take it you can get a Whellie grant fer upgrading a Wheelie ?
And also you can't get a saloon EV grant without scrapping a saloon ?

Surely 1990 you knew the day was coming when your old WAT was coming to an end ?
And yet you left the grant slip till now WHEN IT'S GONE !!
As a regular on here you really should have seen it coming .....

Anyways that is 'Spilt Milk', John M most likely has the most sound advice depending on your license renawal date.

[taxi1990]

https://www.nationaltransport.ie/news/wav23-grant-scheme-closed-to-new-applications/

WAV23 grant is closed. Soz 

Pity.

29,500 for a 4 year old wheelchair car. crazy.

Is that 30 large for a lightly used Caddy,or a wanked out teepee?

Peugeot Rifter with 18000 miles

[taxi1990]

was going to wait until January to change but I doubt my taxi will last that long.

Not sure to just buy a newer one now or rent until 2024 maybe.

Do you NEED to change it ?If you have a few years left on it put a few grand into it a new engine fitter wont cost a huge amount Lad in Glasnevin will rebuild it for under a Grand .Gearbox rebuild not to expensive .Full overhaul for about two grand if you got two or three more years out of it .Panel might be the man to advise you .

I can keep mine until 2026 but it has 317,000 miles on it now. Have spent quiet a bit on it already over the last 2 years. will try to keep it going until January, then even if the grants are gone for good, I will change it.

[taxi1990]

6. Level of Grant
The levels of grant payable by NTA are as follows:
 New Wheelchair Accessible Vehicle (<3,000kms and <3 months old) €17,500
 Wheelchair Accessible Vehicle less than one year of age €17,000
 Wheelchair Accessible Vehicle less than two years of age €14,000
 Wheelchair Accessible Vehicle less than three years of age €13,000
 Wheelchair Accessible Vehicle less than four years of age €9,000
 Wheelchair Accessible Vehicle less than five years of age €5,000
 Wheelchair Accessible Vehicle less than six years of age €4,000

@ 1990, It makes no sense to me why you would trade a saloon fer a part-worn WAV with those grants,
while you could scrap a saloon fer an new EV saloon with about 25k worth of grants ??

Given a choice of a Wheelie with grants or an EV with grants, I would take the EV every day.

I never had a saloon. have always had a wheelchair taxi.

I didn't know that, that changes things quite a bit.

I take it you can get a Whellie grant fer upgrading a Wheelie ?
And also you can't get a saloon EV grant without scrapping a saloon ?

Surely 1990 you knew the day was coming when your old WAT was coming to an end ?
And yet you left the grant slip till now WHEN IT'S GONE !!
As a regular on here you really should have seen it coming .....

Anyways that is 'Spilt Milk', John M most likely has the most sound advice depending on your license renawal date.

Yes I asked the NTA and You can get the WAV grant more than once.

I didnt expect the grant money to be gone so quick, it was gone in February unlike last year when it was available until september I think.

[taxi1990]

And don't forget the hoops ye have to jump through afterwards with the WAV grant.

what hoops?

If you're on freenow,you need to do 1 WAV job a week.Also,you need to send the NTA a list of your WAV jobs every 6 months.

All I ever had to do was fill in a few trips I did. no big deal.

would there be many wheelchair trips every week on free now I wonder in the likes of Dublin?

[watty]

https://grants.nationaltransport.ie

[taxi1990]

https://grants.nationaltransport.ie

maybe they might release another 1 million euro later in the year.

[Rat Catcher]

Are the eSPSV Grants still available? I never bothered posting the confirmation for the last application I made.

[mercenary for hire]

Think so RC.Hal only applied last week and got an almost instant reply.

My application from months ago is still valid AFAIk until the money runs out.

[Rat Catcher]

Might stick in another one.... then again I might not!

[Shallow Hal]

I'm hearin ye RC...was kinda like that meself...no urgency about the whole fukin thing!!

[Belker]

Might stick in another one.... then again I might not!

Ah' sur tis only a 25+k grant and more with toppings !
Sur' de be around forever !! .... (UNLIKELY !).

I reckon both yourself, Hal and MFH fulfill all the criteria required;
A taxi available to scrap.
Access to a decent home charger.
Use of misses car fer domestic emergencies if EV battery is dry.
And decent IT knowledge of how to get it all working.

Ask yourself this; "Will all the grants still be on offer when I eventually need to trade up ?"

[mercenary for hire]

Got me charger survey yesterday...1600 plus another 200 to ESB to connect up the meter tails.

After a grant  of 600 it will be 1200 net cost.Me fukin car isn't even worth 1200.It's very hard to see the value now that leccy prices are so expensive.I'm going back on the fence where it's nice and cheap

I'll repeat what I said already Belker that the grants are artificailly inflating the prices.There's no more than an hours work to install a charger on my gaff but they're charging about 650 for labour after the cost of the cable and charger is factored in.