Minister of Industry, Trade and Tourism, Hector Gomez, In the two blocks of the Electric and Connected Vehicle Recovery and Economic Transformation Strategic Project (Perte VEC), the second call on batteries and the electric vehicle value chain has been published.
This was announced at the press conference after the estimating Council of Ministers Héctor Gómez. in the first 15 days of July A window will open in which the projects participating in this call, which is reminded to be presented with a simple competition, are presented.
In this sense, the minister detailed that the A block of Perte VEC’s second call on batteries will have. 850 million euros 550 million of this is in the form of grants and the remaining 287 in the form of loans.
The European Commission has published the new exemption regulation by category, which allows the exclusion of block B from Perte VEC II, targeting specific projects related to the promotion of electric vehicles. “We started after the regulation came out” procedure by the commission of delegates and we will also announce both the call and the final release of this call block B, VEC II,” the minister confirmed.
Minister Gómez thought that this call had been given to him. “great support” to the electric vehicle and its penetration. He also highlighted the work with the Ministry of Transition regarding charging points and acknowledged that all measures had been agreed with the industry to “promote a sector that we consider essential and the backbone of our economy”.
“We know we have to. reduce the gap Compared to other countries of the European Union,” said Gómez.
European funds supplement
In addition, the Minister of Industry stated that they added it to its body. a “very important” game Annex to the European funds that will cover the third call of the Perte VEC.
Thus, this third call will be equipped with a bit €1.45 billionbroken down into 1,200 million loans and approximately 250 million grants, as announced by Hector Gómez last week.
“We’re talking about a conversation between the VEC II and the superior III. 3,000 million Euros”, Minister explained. “With the tremendous effort we have expressed in terms of charging points, incentives, cuts, etc., together with a firm commitment that it will definitely be a turning point, we hope to reduce this gap and rise above the European average in penetration of electric vehicle,” he stressed.