up to 4,000 euros in aid (and it doesn’t matter if it is electric or not)

Without him MOVES III Planone of the main incentives to change from a combustion car to an electric one is fading. Without the approval of the omnibus decree last Wednesday in the Congress of Deputies, aid to change electric car has disappeared.

Shortly before the year ended, The Government approved the extension of these subsidies until June 30, 2025. The aids They have continued to be delivered in the first three weeks of January but the green light in the Congress of Deputies was still necessary.

The approval of this aid was framed within the omnibus decree which, among other measures, also included transport aid which, consequently, They have also fallen into the part that corresponds to the State. Despite this, some autonomous communities keep them active in its entirety, partially or as a temporary measure.

Although it had been approved previously, with the fall of the MOVES III Plan, regional aid for mobility or, as in this case, the replacement of an old vehicle with a newer one becomes especially interesting. In a project to modernize the vehicle fleet, Galicia has its own aid.

Galician aid for the purchase of a car

The main difference that exists between Galician aid to replace a vehicle and those collected by the MOVES III Plan is that in Galicia a financial amount is provided regardless of the type of technology chosen. It is the volume of CO2 emissions that really defines whether or not a vehicle receives a greater discount.

These discounts are available for passenger cars (M1) and vans (N1) whose total costs (including taxes) are 42,000 euros. If the car is electric or a plug-in hybrid with more than 30 kilometers of electric range, aid is available for cars worth a maximum of 47,000 euros. Furthermore, if the car is adapted to a person with reduced mobility or has eight or nine seats, the cost may exceed the aforementioned figures by another 6,000 euros.

The discounts will be the following:

To the above we must add that the buyer will be obliged to scrap a vehicle that is ten or more years old.

The Xunta de Galicia activates these aids for those who meet these requirements:

a) Natural persons with habitual residence in the territory of the Autonomous Community of Galicia

b) Legally constituted companies and self-employed entrepreneurs, who have a registered office or a work center in Galicia.

Finally, it must be taken into account that the deadline to request aid is open until September 30, 2025. However, the aid is delivered in the order in which the application is received until the funds are exhausted, which will be 2,925. 180 euros for individuals and 250,000 euros for self-employed workers and companies.

Regarding the application for aid, in this link You can check all the requirements that must be met and documents to fill out, but you should know that the concessionaires themselves will be in charge of making the aid request.

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