Apply for a grant for the purchase of e-cargo bikes and e-cargo bike trailers in the business and municipal sectors

Service Description

If you wish to receive the subsidy, you must submit an application to the Federal Office of Economics and Export Control (BAFA).

The subsidy is available for the purchase of the following items for bicycle-based freight transport in industry, commerce, trade, services and the municipal sector:

  • E-cargo bicycles (cargo pedelecs) and
  • Cargo trailers with electric drive assistance (e-cargo bike trailers)

You do not have to repay the grant.

E-cargo bikes and e-cargo bike trailers are not eligible for funding

  • for private use (e.g. shopping, commuting to work) or
  • for passenger transportation (e.g. rickshaws).

Eligible applicants are

  • private companies
  • Companies with municipal participation
  • Municipalities (cities, municipalities, districts)

The grant amounts to 25 percent of the expenditure for the purchase, up to a maximum of 2,500 euros per e-cargo bike or trailer.

You will not receive the grant if you order the e-cargo bike or e-cargo bike trailer before you have received notification of approval. The approval period is 12 months and begins as soon as you receive the approval notice from BAFA.

You are obliged to inform the public about the funding, in particular on the funded bikes and - if possible - on your website. In addition, you must publicly document your project and the results achieved. This applies in particular to information on the abolition or decommissioning of vehicles with combustion engines and on the purposes and mileages of the funded bikes.

The subsidized objects must be located on the territory of the Federal Republic of Germany. You must operate them for at least 3 years in accordance with the funding guidelines. You may not take the bike and trailer out of service within this period, otherwise you will have to repay the grant.

In order to be able to sell the subsidized items, BAFA must give its approval. This is only possible

  • if the new owner fully assumes the rights and obligations resulting from the subsidy and
  • the transfer or sale does not result in any disadvantages for the federal government or violations of state aid or grant law.

Source: Zuständigkeitsfinder Thüringen (Linie6PLus)

Competent Authority

Bundesamt für Wirtschaft und Ausfuhrkontrolle (BAFA), Referat 525 – Kälte- und Klimatechnik

Address
Frankfurter Straße 29 - 35
65760 Eschborn

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Telephone
+49 6196 908-1016
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