E-cars: no automobile tax even after 2023? 🎥
CARE WORDS Swiss car importers are pursuing ambitious goals in the spread of electric drives; and to achieve them, they are calling for an exemption from automobile tax on the import of e-cars from 2024.
Particularly in light and heavy commercial vehicles, strong growth in electric drives is on the horizon. According to a survey, the members of the importers' association auto-schweiz believe that the market share of zero-emission vans could rise from around ten percent today to 23.3 percent by the end of 2025. As early as 2025, plug-in vehicles are expected to account for half of new passenger car registrations.
In the same year, one in four new delivery trucks could also be electric.
en, and from 2030 onwards, the majority of new trucks are expected to have electric drive systems.
Existing incentives to remain
However, this still requires favorable framework conditions and support measures. auto-schweiz is therefore calling on the Federal Council to ensure that electric vehicles remain exempt from automobile tax on import beyond 2023.
Andreas Burgener, Director of Auto-Switzerland: "Sustainable transport services will be in greater demand in the future. Swiss car importers are well prepared for this and are continuously expanding their range of electric and hydrogen commercial vehicles."
But growth in electric passenger cars and commercial vehicles is not a foregone conclusion. Appropriate incentives are needed.
Marcel Guerry, Vice President of auto-schweiz and Managing Director Switzerland of the Emil Frey Group: "Switzerland hardly knows any nationwide support measures such as purchase premiums, which many of our neighboring countries have created. But now the Federal Council also wants to abolish the exemption of e-cars from automobile tax from 2024. In doing so, it is thwarting the self-imposed expansion of electromobility."
Delivery situation increasingly reliable
Donato Bochicchio, Vice President of Auto-Switzerland and Managing Director of Ford Switzerland: "The start of the year 2023 has been successful, the supply situation is becoming increasingly reliable after the difficulties of the Covid pandemic and the outbreak of the Ukraine war. This is also having a positive effect on the market shares of electric drives. After two months, for example, the number of new electric delivery trucks is two-thirds higher than in the previous year."
