Explainer. How will the new support for the purchase of electrics work?

1 – Who can enjoy the support? 

This aid will be granted to households with a social electricity tariff and households with incomes below 80% of the national average income, i.e. up to eur 11,572 per year, the priority will nevertheless be given to the first.

In total, it estimates the government, will be eligible 1.5 million households, twice as many current beneficiaries of the social electricity tariff, which are in number about 750 thousand.

2 – What is the value of support? Are there limits? 

The new support for the purchase of electric vehicles by the most deprived families will have a contribution between 70% and 90% of the value of the car up to a maximum of 15 thousand euros, announced the Environment Minister. 

Besides, you should know that amount of the contribution can be increased by eur 1,000 if a vehicle used for slaughter is delivered.

3 – Will vehicles be covered to what value? 

The programme will accept applications for the purchase of electric vehicles from up to eur 37,500, new or used for less than five years – as long as they are necessarily purchased from a dealer.

4 – When do you pull the backup? 

The Environment Minister has indicated that this will be an aid within a programme to be launched in early 2027.

5 – Once you have the support, will it be possible to sell the car? 

The information advanced by the Government so far shows that vehicles acquired under this support cannot be sold before three years.

6 – In practice, how will support work?

The program will work by ‘vouchers’ intended to be exchanged with suppliers (in this case, car dealers), like what already happens in programs such as e-home.

It will be financed by funds from the Social Plan for the Climate and will have an estimated €104.5 million to contribute to the acquisition of around 5,500 vehicles, a target that could grow by over a thousand units during the negotiations still taking place in Brussels.

In June, remember, the government opened a new €10 million tender to support the purchase of electric vehicles by the general population, which ran out in a few hours.

7 – Is support also provided for micro-enterprises? 

Yeah. Minister Graça Carvalho also said that the government will support, with eur 228 million, around nine thousand micro-enterprises (with turnover of up to eur 2 million and less than 10 employees) in the purchase of 13,700 electric vehicles, companies may apply for one or two vehicles.

In this case contribution will be up to 100% (excluding VAT).