The bill raises the subsidy for electric car purchases to RON20.000 from a previous level of RON12.000.
The bill also introduces a subsidy of RON5,000 on hybrid car purchases, for vehicles generating CO2 emissions of less than 50g/km.
The subsidies, in the form of vouchers, will come from the budget of Romania’s environmental fund but an amount to be allocated has not been settled yet.
The environmental fund offered 100 vouchers for electric cars in 2013 but had only one beneficiary. The program was skipped in 2014 on lack of demand.