Factsheet for measure
AT-2024-9/3504
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Updated
– measures in Austria
E-Mobility Funding 2024
E-Mobilitätsförderung 2024
Background information
Austria's greenhouse gas balance shows that emissions in the transport sector fell by 4.6% in 2022 compared to the previous year. In 2023, for the first time, more electric cars than diesel-powered cars were registered, according to data by Statistics Austria. Solely electric cars show a share of 19.9%. In order to further reduce CO2 emissions in the transport sector, the Federal Ministry for Climate Protection (BMK) is continuing its e-mobility offensive in 2024.
Content of measure
Funding is available for the purchase of e-cars for private individuals with up to €5,000, the purchase of an electric motorcycle with up to €2,300. Furthermore, private charging infrastructure can be funded with up to €600 (wallboxes or charging cables) and up to €1,800 for shared systems in multi-party buildings. Publicly accessible charging infrastructure is funded with up to €30,000. The vehicles must be powered by electricity (or hydrogen) from renewable energy sources. Funding is paid out as a non-repayable subsidy and is limited to 50% of the acquisition costs.
In total, €114.5 million in funding are available. In order to further promote the expansion of the charging infrastructure in currently underserved areas, a further €10 million have been made available in a separate funding programme ('LADIN' by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG), the national funding agency for industrial research and development in Austria).
Updates
The following updates to this measure have been made after it came into effect.
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01 September 2025
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Due to budgetary constraints (excessive deficit procedure ongoing), the e-mobility programme was not prolonged in the same way as up to 2024/25. Funds of the 2024 initiative (which was to run until 31 May 2025) were exhausted by February. The programme has been continued (applications from 1 September 2025 onwards until spring 2026) with a different focus:
Only funding for single-track electric vehicles is extended with a funding pot of €1.5 million, consisting of a share by the public and by two-wheeler importers.
Funding is limited to a maximum of 50% of the acquisition costs and lies between a maximum of €950 (e-moped class L1e) and €2,300 (e-motorcycle class L3e > 11 kW).
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Use of measure
No numbers yet available. In the 2023 e-mobility funding programme, all funds had been exhausted by 20 February 2024.
The 2024 e-mobility initiative subsidised around 25,000 charging points and 18,000 vehicles.
In 2020, there were just under 9,000 subsidised vehicles and just over 2,000 charging points, so that within four years, the number of applications has increased by ten.
In total, almost 160,000 applications for funding for electric vehicles and charging infrastructure were submitted between 2020 and 2024; approximately 62,000 electric vehicles and 51,000 wall boxes or charging cables were subsidised for private citizens.
In the business field, around 53,000 vehicles were subsidised, including 35,000 electric cars.
Target groups
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Workers
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Businesses
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Citizens
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Does not apply to workers
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Does not apply to businesses
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Applies to all citizens
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Actors and funding
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Actors
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Funding
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National government
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National funds
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Social partners
Social partners' role in
designing the measure
and form of involvement:
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Trade unions
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Employers' organisations
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Role
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No involvement as case not in social partner domain
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No involvement as case not in social partner domain
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Form
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Not applicable
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Not applicable
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Social partners' role in the
implementation, monitoring and assessment phase:
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No involvement
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Main level of involvement: N/A
Involvement
No involvement.
Views and reactions
No views have been issued, to the best of our knowledge.
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