The new climate protection and economics minister Robert Habeck extends the state funding for the purchase of an electric car. From 2023 he wants to realign the premiums.
The so-called innovation bonus for the purchase of electric cars and plug-in hybrids will be extended until the end of next year. Buyers of purely electrically powered electric vehicles will continue to receive up to 9,000 euros in funding in 2022 and a maximum of 6750 euros for plug-in hybrids, as the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection, headed by Robert Habeck, announced on Monday. From 2023, the funding will then be reorganized, which could affect plug-in hybrids in particular.
With the innovation bonus, the state subsidies for the so-called environmental bonus were significantly expanded in July 2020. The federal subsidy doubled to 6,000 euros for pure e-cars with a net list price of up to 40,000 euros. In addition, there is a manufacturer’s share of 3000 euros. For electric cars with a list price of 40,000 to 65,000 euros, there is a federal share of 5,000 euros and a manufacturer share of 2,500 euros.
In the case of plug-in hybrids, the state gives up to a net list price of 40,000 euros for purchases of 4500 euros and a manufacturer’s share of 2250 euros. For plug-in hybrids up to 65,000 euros, the share is 3750 federal and 1875 euros manufacturer share, for a total of 5625 euros. So far, the innovation bonus is valid until December 31, 2021.
Robert Habeck wants to ensure continuity
In their coalition agreement, the traffic light parties had already agreed that the innovation bonus “to support the purchase of electric cars” should continue unchanged according to the previous regulation until December 31, 2022 – “in particular due to the manufacturers’ delivery difficulties for already ordered plugs -In hybrid vehicles “, as it is called in the agreements of the SPD, Greens and FDP.
Federal Economics and Climate Protection Minister Robert Habeck (Greens) announced on Monday that the amendment to the funding guidelines for electric vehicles necessary for the extension had been agreed in the federal government. “It will be published in the Federal Gazette at the end of the year and will come into force on January 1, 2022,” said the minister. With the one-year extension of the innovation bonus, “continuity” will be ensured.
At the same time, Habeck emphasized that the federal government wanted to become “more ambitious” in funding in the future, “in order to give electromobility a further boost” and, moreover, to strengthen climate protection. “To this end, we will realign the funding,” he announced.
From 2023, the promotion of e-cars will be realigned
According to the ministry, from 2023 onwards only electric vehicles “that have been shown to have a positive effect on climate protection” will be subsidized. According to this, this should “be defined via the electric driving component and a minimum electric range”. Work on the new “funding design” had started with the start of the new federal government.
The formulation of the demonstrably “positive climate protection effect” as a funding condition from 2023 can also be found in the coalition agreement. It also states that the minimum electric range of the vehicles must be 80 kilometers “from August 1, 2023”.
According to the Federal Office for Economic and Export Control (Bafa), where consumers can apply for the innovation bonus, the current version of the funding guidelines already states that plug-in hybrid vehicles with a purely electric range of less than 60 Kilometers will no longer be eligible from January 1, 2022. “Applications for these vehicles must therefore be submitted by December 31, 2021,” says the agency’s website.
According to the ADAC from September of this year, most plug-in vehicles currently manage between 40 and 60 kilometers without the combustion engine. With a view to the innovation bonus, after the new government took office last week, in view of the “manageable ecological benefits of plug-in hybrids”, the automobile club spoke out in favor of adapting the existing rules.
How exactly a positive climate protection effect will be defined in the future remains to be seen. What seems certain, however, is that government subsidies for buying e-cars will not last forever. “The innovation bonus will no longer be required beyond the end of 2025,” says the coalition agreement.
Source From: Stern
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