Cars, new scrappage scheme: from individuals to micro-businesses, here are the Isee thresholds to access the incentive

A new car scrappage scheme has emerged from the Pnrr revision on which the government is working. The Ministry for the Environment and Energy Security has in fact received the OK from the European Commission to transfer 597 million resources from the revision of the measure for the installation of electric charging stations to a new programme for the renewal of the fleet of private and light commercial vehicles with electric cars.

The government's plan is to sell off a thermal vehicle and replace it with a newly acquired zero-emission car. But who will the intervention be aimed at? People resident in functional urban areas and with an Isee of a certain type will be eligible for the incentives, as well as micro-businesses that meet certain requirements set by European regulations.

For natural persons, it will be the Isee (the indicator of the equivalent economic situation) that will determine access to support: the contribution will be 11 thousand euro for Isee up to 30 thousand euro; it will drop to 9 thousand euro for Isee above 30 thousand euro but up to 40 thousand euro for the purchase of private vehicles (category M1, which identifies cars intended for the transport of persons with a maximum of eight seats in addition to the driver's).

As for micro-businesses, the incentive will support the purchase of commercial vehicles (categories N1 and N2, i.e. vehicles designed and built for goods transport with a maximum mass of up to 3.5 and 12 tonnes) with zero emissions: the contribution will be equal to 30% of the value of the new electric vehicle, but with a maximum limit of EUR 20,000 to be measured for each vehicle purchased.

The intervention aims at replacing 39,000 thermal vehicles with the same number of electric cars and the target must be achieved by 30 June 2026, which is then the final deadline for the implementation of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan that is the basis from which the government has drawn to field this new scrappage.