On October 29, 2024, tragedy began. Various autonomous communities in Eastern Spain but, above all, the Valencian Community saw how strong rains and the posterior floods left 225 dead in their path and three missing persons who have not yet been found.
Although the term Dana refers to an “isolated depression in high levels” (the famous cold drop), in memory it has remained as Dana de Valencia What lived on the border between October and November 2024. Some floods that also left the material damage that affected 360,000 people.
Months later we have known that 141,000 cars affected by the floods are pointed out. Most of them insurmountable although we have had images that leave us some optimism, saving vehicles with half a century behind them. Trying to recover normal, populations faced the challenge of what to do with the greatest scrap of the history of Spain and how to recover from the consequences.
Among those measures to replace all these vehicles, at the end of November 2024 the Government announced that it launched the Reinicia Auto+Plan. With him he wanted to give financial aid to those who had lost his car with the floods, delivering an economic amount for the purchase of a new vehicle.
The program contemplated the delivery of aid both for the purchase of new and second -hand vehicles but rewarded those who jump to zero emissions. Specifically, the Aid They are distributed as follows:
- New vehicles with zero label: 10,000 euros.
- New vehicles with ECO label or C: 5,000 euros.
- Second -hand vehicles with zero label: 4,000 euros.
- Second -hand vehicles with ECO label or C: 2,000 euros.
- Vehicles for people with reduced mobility will have extra help of 1,000 euros more and 500 euros on three -wheeled motorcycles.
- Motorcycle aid vary between 2,000 euros and 500 euros depending on whether they are new or second -hand and its ecological rating.
The problem is that the Ministry of Industry and Tourism has already submitted the accrediting document with the relationship of the beneficiaries of these aid. But, there is no help to a car of zero emissions. What happens?
Aid that seem frozen
First of all, the first thing to be clear about is how the aids of the Reinicia Auto+Plan are delivered.
As explained in article 9 of Royal Decree-Law 8/2024 in which urgent measures are collected to help those affected by the DANA, the procedure is the following:
- If the client had already bought the car before the aid was opened (they did it on December 18), the dealers had to make an entry to the beneficiaries once the aid was approved with the corresponding file.
- If the client had not yet bought the car, the concessionaire processed the aid and it was discounted from the final Price of the car once all taxes were applied.
In The automotive tribune They explain that the first aid began to surrender last February. By then, more than 10,000 subsidies to purchase had been requested and as the delay in the deliveries of the aid was affecting customers, in some cases the vehicles began to be delivered before receiving the money with the concessionaire’s commitment to return that money afterwards.
But these grants have only been arriving in vehicles with a C and echo label of the DGT, according to Digital economythat raise the number of aid to More than 25,000 files For this type of vehicles. These aids are reflected in the document of the beneficiaries of them.
Indeed, as can be seen in this document, there is no approved help to cars with zero DGT emissions label. That is, no plug or electric hybrid (both new and second -hand) has received confirmation of such aid for purchase.
In the middle they ensure that sources from the Ministry of Industry confirm that “the aid of 10,000 euros are on zero label. Electric cars are paid with European funds, and its processing is being carried out.”
From WorldOfSoftware We have put ourselves in contact With the Ministry of Industry to confirm if this situation is true and where the funds of these aid come from, as well as the procedure that is carried out to deliver them, trying to understand why any car with zero emissions stickers of the DGT has received the approval still for the delivery of said aid.
Similarly, we have contacted Faconauto, the largest representative of the Spanish dealers to know if it is true that the aids related to electric cars are frozen or have not received any approval.
When we write this article, we have not obtained an answer from the Ministry of Industry and Tourism or Faconauto
Photo | Manuel Pérez García and Estefania Monerri Mínguez and Pool Moncloa/César P. Sendra
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