Electromobility
Habeck wants charging current credit for electric car buyers
The German auto industry is under pressure. Not only is the sale of electric cars stalling, overall sales are sluggish. The Minister of Economics wants to specifically support e-mobility.
Federal Minister of Economics Robert Habeck (Greens) wants to stimulate the purchase of electric cars with charging credits and tax incentives and thus support the German car industry. It is proposed that electric car owners receive financial support when charging their vehicles – at least for a certain period of time.
“As an incentive to buy electric cars (new and used), we want to state-finance a charging current credit of 1,000 euros (for charging at publicly accessible charging stations),” says a concept from the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection, from which the Quote newspapers from the Funke media group.
Purchase incentives are also advocated. Tax incentives are to be introduced for e-car buyers with low and middle incomes. A certain proportion of the acquisition costs should be tax deductible, as is the case with the promotion of energy-efficient building renovation. For people with low incomes, the ministry also considers alternatives such as a social leasing model to be conceivable with regard to electric cars.
Also keep an eye on the used car market
In addition to the purchase of new electric cars, the paper takes the used car market into account: “In order to stimulate the used car market, we want to subsidize professional battery checks with 100 euros,” it says.
It is said that used, purely electric vehicles that are exclusively equipped with an electric motor (BEV) make it easier for price-sensitive customers to get started with e-mobility. A professional battery check gives the potential buyer certainty about the condition of the used vehicle battery and thus about the residual value of the vehicle.
In Germany, electric vehicles have been struggling with sales difficulties for some time. At the end of 2023, the environmental bonus for electric cars was ended prematurely due to the budget crisis.
Make fines flexible for the automotive industry
In the paper, the BMWK also proposes, against the background of the current sales problems, to make possible fines for the car industry for violations of fleet limits more flexible and to create the possibility of avoiding fines from 2025 by overfulfilling the requirements for 2026 and 2027.
However, the incumbent red-green coalition’s scope for making decisions is limited. After the traffic light coalition broke up, the SPD and the Greens no longer have a majority in the Bundestag.
dpa
Source: Stern
