Volkswagen wants to give car buyers up to the end of April, away from the so-called intensive cities a discount when you trade-in your old Diesel against a cleaner vehicle of the corporate brand. This “exchange premium” will of 24. January to 30. April, 2019 on the whole of Germany to be extended, said the Wolfsburg-based carmaker on Wednesday. The discount is for new cars, depending on the model between 500 Euro for the smallest car, the up! and 7000 Euro for the SUV Touareg.
Originally, Volkswagen had limited the benefits to the regions that had defined the Federal government as a particularly loaded-intensive cities. The areas are those Metropolitan areas in which the Exceeding of the limit values in the air pollution with nitrogen oxides and in which, therefore, bans threaten or even by the courts.
With the expansion would now “all the holders of Euro-4 and Euro-5 diesel vehicles, very attractive terms and conditions for the transition to efficient New or young used cars with the latest emissions technology,” said sales Director Jürgen Stackmann. In order to emphasize VW’s “continued commitment to improve air quality and to avoid driving bans in German cities”.
Regardless of the “exchange premium” granted by Volkswagen is also a nationwide “environmental bonus”. It applies when consumers leave your Euro-1 to Euro – 4 diesel vehicle is scrapped and instead, a New or year-old car of Volkswagen require, depending on the model, the height is of these price reductions of between 1500 and 8000 Euro.
An extension of the discounts to the entire Federal territory announced on Wednesday the group’s Audi brand, also until the end of April. Here, too, the “exchange premium is graded” depending on the model and is for new cars between 2000 and 9000 Euro. The “eco-premium” for scrapping of older Diesel ranges up to 10,000 euros.
VW argues that the renewal of the vehicle fleet, is “faster and more efficient way to improve air quality”. Together with the Software Updates for diesel vehicles in large volumes in nitrogen dioxide emissions avoided.
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the Sharp criticism of the diesel premium for the group transport policy spokeswoman for the left party in the Bundestag, Ingrid Remmers expressed, however. Rather, the Federal be-wide Hardware upgrades are necessary. “Many people lack the money simply to buy a new vehicle,” she said. In addition, a fleet renewal will reduce “hardly the pollution in our cities”, said Remmers. New Euro 6c vehicles cracks the exhaust gas limits “many times” and be “almost as dirty as the one it is intended to replace”. (AFP)
