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Habeck extends increased state subsidies for e-cars
The new Economics and Climate Protection Minister Habeck is extending the significantly increased state funding for electric cars until the end of 2022. Photo: Hendrik Schmidt / dpa-Zentralbild / dpa
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E-cars will now continue to receive purchase bonuses in the coming year. But not all vehicles with electric drive actually have a positive effect on climate protection.
The new Economics and Climate Protection Minister Robert Habeck (Greens) is extending the significantly increased state funding for electric cars until the end of 2022. It was previously limited to the end of the year.
After that, however, car buyers have to adjust to changes. From 2023 onwards, only electric vehicles that have been shown to have a positive climate protection effect are to be funded, as the Ministry of Economic Affairs announced in Berlin on Monday. This should be defined via the electric driving portion and a minimum electric range. This is exactly what it says in the coalition agreement between the SPD, Greens and FDP.
Habeck emphasized: “In the future, we will be more ambitious when it comes to funding, in order to give electric mobility a further boost and to strengthen climate protection. To this end, we will realign the funding. ” Until the reorganization, however, continuity should be ensured. Buyers of purely electrically powered cars will continue to receive funding of up to 9,000 euros in 2022. Plug-in hybrids are funded with a maximum of 6750 euros.
In the middle of last year, the existing purchase bonus (environmental bonus) for e-cars and plug-in hybrids was increased through an innovation bonus. The federal government had doubled its funding for the purchase of such vehicles, limited until the end of 2021. This had led to a sharp rise in new registrations. This innovation bonus will now be extended until the end of 2022.