The plan was already in place, the electric car purchase bonus (environmental bonus) should continue until the end of 2025. The environmental bonus should gradually decrease from year to year. Plug-in hybrids and electric cars with a gross sales price of more than 65,000 euros should no longer be subsidised. A good plan in itself, with long-term planning for all bestselling new electric cars. But recently the comment by our Finance Minister Christian Lindner (FDP) caused a stir. He proposes not to extend the environmental bonus and to cancel it from 2023. Transport Minister Volker Wissing (FDP) now also agrees with this statement, as he reveals in a ZDF interview.
"I no longer think it is necessary," Wissing said in an interview with ZDF. According to his reasoning, more electric cars are being ordered than can be delivered. However, the future of the environmental bonus must be decided together with Habeck's ministry - "and the arguments are still being exchanged," explained the FDP politician.
For many people ordering new electric cars, this is a nerve-wracking up and down. No clear statements from the ministry. For many an eternal dissent. But Transport Minister Volker Wissing (FDP) does not see this. "We are facing an enormous transformation process," said the Minister of Transport. Budget funds are scarce, public funds must be spent in a targeted manner. "And the fact that there is a discourse on these issues, weighing different arguments and also intensively discussing them is a good sign," says Wissing.
Over the next few weeks we can look forward to seeing how the topic of "environmental bonuses" for electric vehicles will continue and when our government will agree on a line. We hope for a quick solution to give electric car buyers planning security.
Click here for the ZDF interview.
Source: ZDF
