From January 1, 2025, no car without a DGT label will be able to enter Madrid or circulate on its streets. Neither did those registered in the capital, who until now overcame the veto. To “alleviate the impact of circulation limitations”, the Community of Madrid just approved a new incentive program.
This is not about direct purchase aid, but about incentives for scrapping precisely those unmarked cars environmental when purchasing a new model with an ECO or ZERO label.
Instead of purchase aid, incentives for sending your old car to the scrapyard
The measure, recently announcedis part of the strategy Move Madrid Plan along with others to promote sustainable mobility. In total, almost 8.5 million euros will be allocated and will be active two years, until December 2026. Or, it is understood, until funds are exhausted.
Specifically, the Community of Madrid will offer up to 2,000 euros for those who scrap a vehicle without a label. This incentive can only be requested by those who buy a car or vehicle with an ECO and ZERO label. Electric models are therefore included, but also hybrid and microhybrids, plug-in hybrids or gas (Natural Gas and LPG).
They will be added to others such as bonuses of 1,250 euros for shared transport services (carsharing and motosharing), help with more expensive transport passes, incentives to buy alternative electric vehicles (rental scooters have been banned in Madrid), or incentives for up to 20,000 euros for taxis and hydrogen fuel cell VTC cars.
Only for new cars. The announcement does not detail the fine print and conditions of this aid, since the bases have not been published: they will do so before the end of the year. The main doubt, Whether or not it can be combined with other purchasing aidwhether municipal or state. The MOVES III plan ends in December and offers aid of up to 7,000 euros for plug-in vehicles.
What has been specified is that it will be exclusive to those who buy a new car, which leaves out second-hand or used models. In spring, Madrid City Council launched an incentive program for Label C, ECO and ZERO cars and it applied to used and new cars alike. These incentives They stopped being active on June 7 and they were between 2,500 and 8,500 euros.
On the market today, the cheapest electric car is the Dacia Spring: it starts at almost 18,000 euros and it is a small SUV with 45 HP and 225 km of autonomy. In ECO label models, among the most affordable we find the Dacia Sandero (the ECO-G with LPG mechanics) or the Fiat Panda mild-hybrid: both are around 14,000 euros.
For individual buyers, companies and the self-employed. It is also specified who will be eligible for this incentive for scrapping a car without a label: any natural person, of legal age and resident in a municipality of the Community of Madrid. That is, it is intended not only for Madrid city but also for the populations on the outskirts of the capital and the entire region.
Self-employed workers and small and medium-sized companies that carry out their activity in Low Emission Zones (ZBE) may also apply for this bonus. That is, throughout Madrid, since the city is a complete ZBE, as well as other ZBEs in Madrid municipalities. The regional government anticipates that 30% of these subsidies will go to these users.
Fines continue to be imposed in Madrid ZBE, although the sanctions could fall. It must be remembered that from January 1, no car or vehicle without a label will be able to circulate in Madrid, including those that pay the road tax in the city. Furthermore, until now it only affected cars, but now motorcycles and industrial vehicles are also included.
Madrid ZBE, and the Special Protection ZBEs such as Madrid Central or Plaza Elíptica, are reported to the courts for harming SMEs and the self-employed: they were annulled by the Superior Court of Justice of Madrid, although the council has appealed the sentence.
This means that improper access will continue to be fined until it is final: the more than 460 cameras that monitor access in Madrid ZBE have been active for several months and until December they only sanction any car without a label that is not registered in Madrid. Starting in January, the veto will be for ALL unmarked vehicles.
Source: www.motorpasion.com
