Government pushes electric car amid industry dissatisfaction

The government wanted to quickly deal with the resignation Wayne Griffiths as president of Anfac with a new aid package to boost electric vehicle sales. Griffiths, President seat And Cupraand one of those executedThe people with the most influence in the industry resigned as president of the employers’ association two weeks ago. Anfak for the “inaction” of the executive branch with electrification.

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The government wanted to deal with the resignation quickly Wayne Griffiths as Anfac president with a new aid package to boost electric vehicle sales. Griffiths, president seat And Cupraand one of those executedThe industry’s most powerful men resigned two weeks ago as president of the employers’ association. Anfak for the “inaction” of the executive branch with electrification.

The order took the sector and the executive by surprise, which they did not like. Now it has decided to respond with new aid for the purchase of electric vehicles, although this is not what the sector asked for, which requires incentives to be collected at the time of purchase, and not years later, as in the case of Plan your moves.

The government has decided to extend the validity period Plan your movesthe budget of which will be 350 million, of which 200 will come from General state budgets (OGBs) and the remaining 150 from European Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan funds. The third edition came out with this game Plan your moves It is already 1,550 million.

In parallel, an additional 50 million line will be introduced. Moves fleetswhich aims to accelerate the electrification of the company’s vehicle fleets. Similarly, another 150 million will be allocated for the so-called Moves corridorsa program aimed at financing the deployment of electric vehicle charging points in so-called “shadow zones,” that is, on those sections of roads where charging infrastructure is not sufficiently developed.

This set of measures, in turn, will be supplemented by the expansion Moves Mitmadesigned to renew the fleet of heavy vehicles with other, more environmentally friendly ones. An additional budget of 50 million will be provided to meet requests submitted to the plan, which ended on April 30 without receiving a response. It Moves Mitma In total, this will add 450 million.

Another novelty is the public consultation launched by the government to regulate a new mechanism for crediting renewable electricity in the transport sector – the so-called loans-.