According to HS’s information, the board has discussed the continuation of the support, but there have been no decisions.
Electric cars the allocations reserved for procurement support will probably run out already in September.
The additional support pot of 9.5 million euros decided last spring was supposed to be enough until next March.
“Traficom’s estimate is that the current allocations will run out at some point in September”, says the Finnish Transport and Communications Agency’s Traficom expert Antti Hänninen.
Since the beginning of the year, the buyer of an electric car has received a subsidy of 2,000 euros for the purchase of a new car priced under 50,000 euros. Support has been applied for on average every month for the purchase of 800–1,000 cars.
Appropriations the end is due to the fact that, according to the terms of the subsidy, “subsidies can be granted as long as the allocation allocated in the state budget for the payment of the subsidy is available”.
According to Traficom’s websites, 86 percent of the support for passenger cars has been reserved on August 17, depending on the situation.
Reported about it first Mootiro-lehti.
Electric cars we often have to wait a long time due to a component shortage. However, you can get the subsidy if a budget reservation has been made for the subsidy, even if the car is handed over, for example, only next June.
“Traficom reserves the amount if a person enters into a purchase or sale contract for an electric car and submits an application for support to Traficom in accordance with the conditions. Support can be granted after the first registration, even if it is not done until next summer,” says Hänninen.
Support has been granted to individuals for the purchase and long-term rental of a new fully electric car. Procurement support is applied for from Traficom.
You can read more about the support conditions for electric cars here.
If appropriations run out, no more appropriations will be reserved for applications.
“For example, in November, the allocated funds have already been used for sure. In that case, it’s simply not even worth applying for procurement support, because the funds don’t even exist in these prospects,” says Hänninen.
Instead, there is still money for both electric and gas-powered vans and trucks.
Hänninen says that each type of car has its own subsidy and money cannot be transferred, for example, from a van subsidy to a passenger car subsidy.
Hänninen does not know if more money is coming for this purpose.
According to HS’s information, the matter has been discussed in the board, but no decisions have been made.
If a political consensus on the allocations is reached, the money would probably be given in the next supplementary budget. It has only been planned for October, which means that the money may run out temporarily, even if new money comes.
In addition to the support of two thousand euros, the sale of electric cars has been accelerated by the fact that, since October last year, there has been no need to pay car tax for fully electric cars.
Government budgeted an allocation of 7.5 million euros for the purchase of electric cars at the beginning of the year, but it was quickly used up in the spring. In the spring, the government decided on a new allocation of 9.5 million euros, but now that too is running out.
The government has partly calculated its carbon neutrality goal on the increase of electric cars. In Finland, clearly less support is distributed for the purchase of electric cars than in, for example, Sweden and Norway.
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