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The Department of Climate Action, Food and Rural Agenda, through the ICAEN, has extended by 37 million euros the aid line for electric mobility MOVES III, intended to subsidize the acquisition of electric vehicles and the installation of charging points for electric vehicles. This increase raises the total budget of the program - endowed with European Next Generation funds - to 232 million euros, and will allow coverage of all the requests received (which already exceeded the amount available before the extension) and also receive new ones. The deadline for submitting aid requests ends on July 31, 2024.
This is the third expansion of the MOVES III program in Catalonia, which began with an initial allocation of 65 million euros, and represents a demonstration of Catalan society's commitment to cleaner and more sustainable mobility. So far, the ICAEN has received more than 41,000 requests for both vehicle renewal and the installation of charging points, with a combined amount of 204.71 million euros.
The extension does not change the requirements for applying for aid. Individuals, self-employed persons, communities of owners or administrations without economic activity who have purchased a vehicle included in the program or who have installed a charging point, as well as legal entities and other administrations, may do so. From the granting of the aid there will be a maximum period of 12 months to execute and justify the action.
The grants for the acquisition of alternative energy vehicles (electric or fuel cell) for individuals and self-employed persons range from 1,100 euros (in the case of motorcycles) to 9,000 euros (in the case of of vans with the scrapping of another vehicle). The grant for the purchase of a tourist car with more than 90 kilometers of autonomy is 4,500 euros, and rises to 7,000 if you also certify the scrapping of the old vehicle.
The item intended to subsidize the installation of charging points will finance public and private charging points located in residential areas, parking areas, public roads or road networks, and the grants will cover from 30% to 80% of the eligible expenditure according to the beneficiary, with a maximum of 800,000 euros per file and 5,000 euros for natural persons and top-up point. The grants cover everything from the cost of the charging point to the work and equipment associated with its installation, such as civil works or management, control and security systems, among others. Communities of neighbors can also access it, so that charging points can be enabled in private community car parks.
The aim of this aid line is to advance the decarbonisation of the transport sector, and it aligns with the transition process towards a new, cleaner, democratic and sustainable energy model that the country is experiencing and with the situation of climate emergency declared by the Government of Catalonia.
More than 82,000 electric vehicles already circulate in Catalonia. Of these, more than 57,000 are pure electric, about 25,000 are hybrids with a gasoline engine and plug-in electric, and almost 700 are hybrids with a diesel engine and plug-in electric.