Clear Air Zones are driving customers to promote their automobiles and seek for alternate options, in response to information from Carwow.

For the reason that growth of London’s Extremely Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) was introduced in November 2022, Carwow has seen a 101% enhance within the sale of used automobiles by way of its Promote My Automobile service.

The automotive shopping for and promoting platform now expects this to proceed rising considerably because the August 29 deadline approaches.

However in addition to the growth of the ULEZ, Glasgow’s Low Emission Zone (LEZ) comes into impact subsequent week (June 1), bringing with it an outright ban on non-compliant automobiles.

Clear Air Zones have additionally appeared in Birmingham, Bristol and Oxford, which now cost drivers to enter the zone. And extra look set to return, with Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Dundee will all usher in bans for drivers from Could/June 2024.

James Pollard, director of Promote My Automobile at Carwow, mentioned: “We’re seeing that non-compliant automobiles are nonetheless promoting efficiently on Carwow’s platform as retailers in areas that aren’t affected by ULEZ or Clear Air Zones, equivalent to within the North or West of the UK, are nicely conscious that there’s nonetheless excessive demand for these automobiles from drivers searching for inexpensive and fuel-efficient used automobiles.

“For these retailers based mostly in areas with schemes in place, or on the best way, our information reveals that almost all of automotive sellers wish to exchange their automobile, so we count on to see a corresponding bump in gross sales of compliant automobiles or low-and no-emission fashions on the identical time.”

In keeping with new Carwow analysis, public help for such schemes is excessive, with greater than half (54%) of these surveyed agreeing that the ULEZ growth and different new Clear Air Zones will assist construct a greater world for future generations.

Carwow purports that such positivity will probably be mirrored in shopper shopping for behaviour with a readiness to modify their present automobile to at least one that complies, avoiding hefty fiscal penalties.

Three in 4 (74%) of these surveyed didn’t know if their automotive was compliant. One in 10, nevertheless, know their automobile is non-compliant however say they might not afford to modify, which opens the door for sellers to debate PCP and finance choices.