Second Extension - Grant Schemes on electric Environment Friendly Vehicles
Government Extends for a second time the Grant
Scheme on the Purchase of Electric Vehicles to promote Electromobility for
Individuals, Local Councils, Registered NGOs and Private Companies
Transport Malta in conjunction with the Ministry for
Transport, Infrastructure and Capital
Projects, is for the
second time extending the grant scheme on environment friendly vehicles
with another €150,000. A total of €450,000 will be granted. The scheme aims at
reducing emissions generated from road traffic and thus improving the air
quality levels by reducing the number of old motor vehicles from our roads, by
promoting the
purchase of Battery Electric Vehicles and Battery Electric Quadricycles.
Between January and October 2017, all the
applications submitted for the grant were accommodated to the extent that 54
additional electric vehicles were registered on Maltese Roads.
The grant is applicable to Private Car Owners,
Registered NGOs, Business Community and also to the Local Councils.
The scheme, subject to various conditions is
as follows:
(i)
For
private individuals
the grant will amount to:
a) €5,000 when
registering a new or used electric Category M1 or N1 vehicle without scrapping an older vehicle;
b) €8,000 when
registering a new electric Category M1 or N1 vehicle and de-registering
another Category M1 or N1 vehicle which is at least 10 years old from year of
manufacture;
c) €2,000 when
registering a new or used electric quadricycle.
For used electric vehicles, the grant is only
applicable for Battery Electric Vehicles of not more than 24 months old from
date of first registration and not more than 12,000 km on the odometer.
Applications will be handled on a first come
first serve basis. Companies which have already benefited from the last scheme
with respect to electric vehicles are eligible to benefit again from this
scheme as long as they are in line with state aid regulations.
Application forms for such schemes can be
collected from the Vehicle Licensing Unit within Transport Malta, A3 Towers,
Raħal Ġdid or from http://www.transport.gov.mt/land-transport