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Also, all the options (lump sums and trade-ins) are capped to 40% of the price of the bike. So you'd have to trade your car for a 6000+ euros electric bike to g
by causi 4y ago
Also, all the options (lump sums and trade-ins) are capped to 40% of the price of the bike. So you'd have to trade your car for a 6000+ euros electric bike to get the full 3000 euros
What possible reason do they have for that? All it does is encourage people to buy a more expensive bike.
- mytailorisrich 4y agoThe reason it is capped at a percentage of the bike's purchase price is to limit abuse. If people have to spend a good chunk of their own money they may think twice, if it's a free ebike everyone will take the offer and immediately resell the bike (yay free money). I'm any case 4k is huge as most ebikes are cheaper than that... I suspect this is just to generate headline with a big number...
- causi 4y agoHow is it a free bike if they have to give up their car to get it?
- mytailorisrich 4y agoIf I have an old car I need to replace I can now have a free ebike, and then I buy my new car...
- lm28469 4y agoOr you could sell your car, or trade in your car (+ money) for another car It's limited to one per person anyways, it's not like the mafia was going to buy 500k cheap cars and get 500k brand new free electric bikes.
- probably_wrong 4y agoYou could buy a really cheap, barely functional car for 1k. You trade it in, get a 6k bike for free, and then you sell the bike.
- ptero 4y agoAccording to an earlier post, the cap is 40% of both bike and car price. If you trade in a car for 200, your max ebike refund is 80.
- ThePadawan 4y agoAs linked in the thread, you must have been the owner of the car for 1 year to be eligible.
- tecleandor 4y agoYou might have a low value car. I just sold my old car for 600€. If I had an offer like this, and I could swap it for an expensive e-bike, even when paying for the 60% of the bike my car would have doubled its "value".
- lm28469 4y ago> All it does is encourage people to buy a more expensive bike Virtue signalling and a half disguised way of increasing sales and consumerism If they really cared about climate they'd find proper ways (more/cheaper public transport, state sponsored bicycle sharing, &c.). This is "green capitalism", just slap an "electric" sticker on it and continue with the good old ways
- adrianN 4y agoReplacing cars with bicycles is one of the most "proper" ways of decarbonizing transportation.
- lm28469 4y agoBut apparently only expensive and new electric bikes, not regular bikes or used bikes. And you have to make 900 euros a months, otherwise you're not worthy of assistance, but also you have to pay 60% out of pocket....
- adrianN 4y agoIt's certainly far from perfect, but it's still replacing cars with bicycles.
- mytailorisrich 4y agoI doubt many people would actually replace cars with bicycles. It's not the same use case and in congested places like central Paris people who need a motor have scooters. Feedback stats on these schemes are important but rarely conducted or published in a transparent way as the government obviously has a vested interest in claiming that they work great.
- adrianN 4y agoSince you need to get rid of a car to get the subsidy and you have to pay a substantial part of the cost of the bicycle yourself, even if you wanted to scrap a car to buy a new one you probably expect to use the electric bike at least often enough to justify paying the subsidized price for it.
- addicted 4y agoNo it doesn’t. It makes it easier to buy a more expensive bike, but it’s still more expensive. A $2000 ebike will cost you $1200. A $4000 ebike will cost you $2400. A $6000 ebike will cost you $3600.
- arkh 4y ago> All it does is encourage people to buy a more expensive bike. No. All it does is the 2000€ bike is now sold for 3000€.