Car bonus, funds also end up in electric and plug-in hybrids. What happens now

For the first time in nearly three years, government incentives for electric and plug-in hybrid cars have run out of funds. Now, while the contributions to the purchase of “simple” hybrid cars and many petrol and diesel models (144 million euros remain, destined to finish prematurely as in the previous rounds), the focus shifts to what the choices of the Draghi government on the possible continuation of a measure introduced at the end of 2018 by Conte 1 for a three-year trial period, which would end on 31 December next. And the impossibility of benefiting from the reduced bonus provided for by the 2021 Budget Law, given by the official interpretation of the law that introduced it in December 2020, takes a back seat.

The sums allocated

Yesterday morning the website of the Ministry of Economic Development dedicated to incentives for the purchase of vehicles reported the exhaustion of the 116 million available in 2021 for the purchase of new cars with CO2 emissions between zero and 60 g / km (electric and hybrid with rechargeable batteries with plug, able to travel a few tens of kilometers without the combustion engine).

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In any case, for this category there is an advance of 57.5 million allocated this year for the “extra bonus” that is the additional contribution of 1,000 euros 2,000 in case of scrapping) provided for by the latest Budget law (Law 178/2020, paragraph 652), which since last January it is added to the main one if the seller puts at least an equal discount on it.

I also stop the extra bonus

The wording of the rule does not clarify whether the extra bonus can continue to be paid even after the main bonus has been used up. But the fact that Mise has blocked the booking platform also for the extra-bonus indicates that its interpretation is the restrictive one.