Why Europe began to hand out free electric cars

Now the Europeans are free to use electric vehicles, because the local authorities have allocated huge sums on promoting this environmentally friendly mode of transport.

So, in Germany, to purchase electric vehicles at a price below the average cost of services of mobile operators, and some models to get free. For example, at the expense of state subsidies fully covered by rent Renault Zoe.

Charging station Porsche Leipzig in Central Germany

Within three weeks of appearance of this proposal on the website of the dealer network Autohaus Koenig became interested in the product about 3 thousand people, almost 300 of them have signed contracts.

France is expected to increase sales of the Renault Zoe in half by the end of the year, and in the Netherlands for eight days, the assistance Fund market of electric vehicles spent the grant in the amount of EUR 10 million.

The governments of France and Germany decided to increase subsidies for the purchase of electric cars because of the pandemic, COVID-19, which dealt a powerful blow to the industry. Sales in Europe recovered more slowly than in China or North America, so politicians decided to stimulate economic activity in a similar way.