It wasn't many days ago that Sweden's environment minister said that you have to be careful with state subsidies for electric cars. Now the government wants to reintroduce it anyway.
The state subsidy for electric cars disappeared in Sweden two years ago. At the time, the reason was that the price was approaching that of petrol and diesel cars.
As recently as a few days ago, Sweden's Environment Minister Romina Pourmokhtari warned against re-introducing the state subsidy. But now the government she is a part of has changed her mind.
That's what We Bilägare writes.
However, the support is only partially returning. The government in Sweden is considering a model that has already been proposed by the opposition.
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Namely to reintroduce state support for the part of the population that lives far from the biggest cities in Sweden. In other words – for those out in the countryside and drivers in generally sparsely populated areas.
Other countries have already reintroduced or continued state subsidies for electric cars, after a picture emerged that the car type has difficulty doing without it.
France has, among other things, offered state-subsidized leasing of electric cars. However, the scheme had to be put on hold due to 'excessive interest'.
After threats of factory closures from Volkswagen, and electric car sales that have now plummeted for the 8th month in a row, Germany has also promised to reintroduce a subsidy scheme. Similar to the Swedish model, however, there is only a gradual return.
In the first instance, a good 1.8 billion euros, approximately 13.4 billion Danish kroner, have been set aside between 2024 and 2028 for Germans in electric company cars.
As far as is known, Sweden's government is not so far ahead with the proposal that neither the economy nor the year can be put behind the reintroduction of state subsidies for electric cars.
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