Examination in Seeon Monastery
CSU is planning a purchase bonus for electric cars of up to 3,600 euros
Sales of electric cars collapsed after the purchase bonus ended. Now the CSU wants to promote purchases again under certain conditions.
If the Union wins the federal election, the CSU wants to introduce a purchase bonus for electric cars of up to 3,600 euros. This emerges from a paper for the retreat of the CSU Bundestag members in the Seeon monastery in Upper Bavaria. The draft is available to the German Press Agency; Bayerischer Rundfunk first reported on it.
The paper states that the funding should primarily take into account the transport route from assembly to the point of sale. E-cars produced in Germany should primarily be promoted.
“This has a double benefit: for jobs in Germany and for the climate,” said CSU regional group leader Alexander Dobrindt. According to the paper, the purchase premium should be a maximum of 3,600 euros, and monthly leasing fees could be reduced by 100 euros.
The federal government’s electric car purchase bonus expired at the end of 2023, after which demand for electric vehicles plummeted. Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) recently spoke out in favor of Europe-wide sales promotion and gave little hope for new nationwide promotion.
dpa
Source: Stern
