The new aid granted for the purchase of cleaner vehicles as part of the support plan for the automotive sector will come into force Monday, according to a decree published Sunday in the Official Journal. Among these bonuses and bonuses, some are only temporary and must stop on December 31, 2020. This is firstly the increase in the ecological bonus for the purchase of a new electric vehicle, which goes from 6,000 to 7,000 euros for an individual and 3,000 to 5,000 euros for a legal person (business, community).
The decree also ratifies the creation of an ecological bonus of 2,000 euros for the purchase of a rechargeable hybrid vehicle (petrol-electric), the increase in the conversion premium up to 3,000 euros for a thermal vehicle and up to '' 5,000 euros for an electric or hybrid rechargeable vehicle. In addition, the ceiling of tax income allowing to benefit from higher premiums is raised to 18,000 euros.
The scrapping premium allocated for the replacement of one vehicle by another less polluting is widened to vehicles classified Crit'Air 3, that is to say petrol vehicles registered before 2006 but also diesel before 2011. Another series of measures are coming in force on June 1, with no stop scheduled on December 31: this is the doubling by the State of the improvement of the conversion premium for people living or working in low-emission areas, up to a limit of 1,000 euros, as well as the payment by the State of the same aid as that allocated by the communities for the purchase of an electrically assisted bicycle, up to 200 euros.
The State also introduces a bonus for the transformation of a vehicle with thermal motorization into electric motorization with battery or fuel cell. All of the support measures decided by the government to support demand and help car manufacturers to dispose of the gigantic stocks accumulated during confinement represent an effort of 1 billion euros.
The support plan for the automotive sector, announced Tuesday by the President of the Republic, amounts to more than 8 billion euros, including also guaranteed loans and partial unemployment measures introduced at the beginning of the crisis.
