UNITED KINGDOM: Subsidies of £ 2,500 for cars under £ 35,000 that officially emit less than 50g / km and have a range of 70 miles or more.
Infrastructure: More than 26,000 public chargers.
Interesting fact: In 2024, a “percentage of production” electric vehicle mandate based on the Chinese model will be introduced for manufacturers.
The UK has been subsidizing plug-in cars since 2011 and achieved a market share of 10.7% last year. Its strong point is the in-kind tax system, where electric vehicles are currently only charged for 1% (2% from next year but fixed until 2025), which is creating serious demand on fleets. Its demise is a tangled public charging infrastructure with multiple providers and payment methods.
France
Subsidies: € 6000 (£ 5000) discount on cars costing up to € 45,000 (€ 38,000) and emitting up to 20g / km; € 2,000 (£ 1,700) for € 45,000 – € 60,000 (£ 38,000 – £ 51,000) electric vehicles; and € 1000 (£ 850) for plug-in hybrids.
Infrastructure: Around 35,000 public chargers.
Interesting fact: A scrapping bonus offers a four-digit subsidy (the exact amount depends on the vehicle) for electric vehicles and clean ICE models when drivers trade in an old car.
France, like China, had planned to cut its subsidies for electric vehicles, but recently extended them until next year. It intends to ban sales of new gasoline and diesel cars in 2040, but the government has been criticized for promising there will be 100,000 chargers by the end of 2021 because that is clearly still a long way off.
Germany
Subsidies: Up to € 9,000 (£ 7,500) for BEVs up to € 40,000 (£ 34,000) and € 6,750 (£ 5700) for hybrids; € 7,500 (£ 6300) and € 5625 (£ 4,700) for those over € 40,000.
Infrastructure: Approx. 45,000 public chargers.
Interesting fact: Their climate protection program 2030 included plans for a law that obliges landlords to “tolerate the installation of charging infrastructure”.
