This Wednesday, Madrid City Council opened the deadline to request aid within the Cambia 360 plan for the renewal of private vehicles and for the replacement of diesel boilers and air conditioning systems with more efficient ones.
As explained by the City Council, aid for vehicle renewal has a reserved credit of up to 14 million euros and can be requested until June 7, while in the case of boilers there is a budget of 1.8 million of euros and will be available until November 22.
Madrid has allocated 87.8 million euros between 2020 and 2023 for Cambia 360 aid, most of it for the acquisition of private vehicles, with 33.8 million, and for the renewal of boilers with 33.3 million, two lines which they consider “fundamental” to improve the city’s air quality.
The “most successful call of the Cambia 360 Plan”, according to the municipal administration, is the one aimed at the renewal of passenger cars for private use. In that sense, since 2021, the Madrid City Council, through the Urban Planning, Environment and Mobility Area, has “incentivized” the purchase of 9,446 new vehicles through this aid.
Likewise, as a result of this aid, 1,136 vehicles with environmental classification A, which are the most polluting, were scrapped between 2021 and 2022. As a novelty in this edition, the City Council will seek to encourage more scrapping. Therefore, although the base of the aid is reduced, the final amount increases with an incentive for those who get rid of their polluting vehicle after purchasing another.
In this new call, which opens today until November 22, Madrid residents will be able to request credit to replace, totally or partially, the thermal installations in diesel boiler buildings with high-efficiency or renewable heat generators in homes or in the tertiary sector. For communities of owners, the City Council will subsidize up to 60% of the expense and for companies, up to 40%.
Next May 9, and until July 8, the call for aid for the installation of electric charging infrastructure will be opened, with a credit of 2,250,000 euros. Subsidies for the taxi sector will follow, a line that will remain open from June 1 to 30.
