Environmental bonus: From Monday it ends early
BAD SURPRISE It's coming sooner than expected: The German government is abolishing subsidies for electric cars as early as tomorrow evening. From Monday, there will no longer be a so-called environmental bonus.
Current applications and those that will be submitted by Sunday are still being processed, it is said. Originally, the bonus for the purchase of an e-car was to run until the end of next year. However, the maximum state subsidy was to fall from 4500 to 3000 euros in January. With the premature end of the subsidy, the federal government is reacting to the budget shortfall of around 17 billion euros.
Destruction of trust
With this surprising decision, the German government is damaging many thousands of customers and car dealers and at the same time destroying confidence in a comprehensible and rational policy to promote electromobility, complains the Zentralverband Deutsches Kraftfahrzeuggewerbe.
ZDK President Arne Joswig: "The minimum would be to let the environmental bonus run until the end of the year and at the same time, in coordination with the federal states and local authorities, ensure that registration offices remain open until December 31, 2023 so that registrations can be made."
Sales slump noticeably
The ZDK also complains that vehicles that have recently been delivered to dealers but have not yet been registered and for which no application for the environmental bonus has been submitted by Sunday are no longer eligible. With the end of the bonus for plug-in hybrids, their sales have noticeably slumped by more than half this year.
Industry associations now fear that something similar will happen to battery-powered electric cars. The German government's goal of having 15 million electric cars on the roads in Germany by 2030 will no longer be achievable with the premature end of subsidies, says the industry.
Source: auto-medienportal.net
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