Sweden's government is now partially compensating for the removed electric car discount by giving 10,000 in scrapping premiums for diesel and petrol cars.
Swedes can no longer get government subsidies for new electric cars. But they can get DKK 10,000 in scrapping premium if they scrap a Euro 4 or older car and buy a new electric car instead.
This is written by Swedish Mestmotor .
The 10,000 Swedish kroner corresponds to 6,360 Danish kroner. An amount Climate and Environment Minister Romina Pourmokhtari sees as 'an important step on the way' if Sweden is to be CO2 neutral by 2045 at the latest.
– The scrapping premium is an important part of the government's work to increase the pace of the electrification of the transport sector.
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– The support means that we can phase out fossil fuel-powered cars faster and make it possible for more people to switch to electric cars instead. Being able to quickly change our car fleet is absolutely central to Sweden succeeding in reaching net-zero emissions by 2045 at the latest, says the minister.
However, the higher scrapping premium is also subject to criticism. Because it is simply not high enough, many believe. At least not high enough to make more people choose an often more expensive electric car.
Mestmotor writes that several people in the Swedish car industry have mentioned that the amount must be somewhere between 25,000 and 50,000 Swedish kroner, because it will really lure Swedish drivers over to electric cars.
Incidentally, it was already in November 2022 that Sweden's newly elected, bourgeois government removed the tax discount on electric cars.
At the time, it was 70,000 Swedish kroner (48,000 Danish kroner, ed.). The government justified this by saying that the price of a new electric car was approaching the price of diesel and petrol cars.
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