Transport Malta has announced a new grant scheme on the purchase of new environment-friendly vehicles
515 vehicles have already benefited from the original €400,000 allocated between January and April 2017.
Vehicle owners who applied for the scheme were entitled to between €700 and €900 upon the purchase of a new M1 motor vehicle allowed to carry no more than eight passengers in addition to the driver, with CO2 emissions not exceeding 130g/km, length not exceeding 4460mm and licensed for private use only. Owners had to de-registering a vehicle in the same category.
Application forms for the scheme are available from Transport Malta, Vehicle Licensing Unit, A3 Towers, Paola or downloaded from http://www.transport.gov.mt/land-transport
The scheme in the form of a grant to incentivise the purchase of Battery Electric Vehicles, Hybrid vehicles, and Battery Electric Quadricycles is still applicable.