Climate protection in danger: Savings plans threaten to damage electric cars!

Climate protection in danger: Savings plans threaten to damage electric cars!

Exciting twists in Austrian climate policy! According to information from orf.at , the FPÖ and the ÖVP are planning radical changes in the taxation of electric cars. So far, electric vehicles have been freed from motor-related car tax, but that could change soon. Peter Jagersberger, spokesman for the car dealer in Styria, warns that the departure from this tax advantage could endanger the sales of electric cars. Many company fleets, which were recently responsible for 76 percent of e-car registrations, could be forced to switch back to conventional combustion engines, the new control models should actually be implemented.

secret plans for climate policy reveals

not enough! A secret negotiating paper of the ÖVP, presented by Peter Westenthaler on , shows that the turquoise step backwards Want to initiate climate policy. The plans range from the shift of the climate neutrality to 2050 to the abolition of the CO2 tax as soon as the EU-wide CO2 certificate trade is expanded. Even adhering to the previous climate goals are rejected, which insiders interpret as a direct provocation to the SPÖ climate-giving representative. The positions of the ÖVP seem to be increasingly covered with those of the FPÖ, which could decisively influence the future direction of Austrian environmental policy.