the Increasing environmental requirements sets the agenda in the country’s largest cities, where it from 1. July of this year was forbidden to run in the municipalities of Copenhagen, Aarhus, Odense and Aalborg, with vans registered before 1. January 2007, and which does not have a particulate filter.
It can be expanded in 2022, so the ban applies to cars registered before 1. January 2012, and in 2025 it will include vans registered before 1. september 2016.
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the Rules are, however, screwed together, so similar cars with white plates are not covered. This means that owners, who are happy for their car, not necessarily are forced to part with the old van.
Here are two options to be able to run far, namely, to retrofit a particle filter, which can run to $ 10,000. – if it at all can be done on the model or transform the van into a hvidpladebil.
It is especially relevant for the many danes who have small vans, there are nedvejet according to the old rules, which gave low road tax, and which are used as passenger cars without rear seats.
A popular MPV like the VW Touran TDI from 2004 to 2007 may be converted from yellow to white plates with a tax of 7.000-15.000 kr. Photo VW
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which is adm. director of the company Quickimport, who specializes in transforming gulpladebiler to the white sheets.
Here you will experience a growing interest. While the past came requests from three to five car owners of the day, the number is 20.
Photo: PR
– We get significantly more inquiries from the vehicle owners who have received a letter stating that they are no longer allowed to run in Copenhagen, and says: What can I do? The tendency, I think, will be enhanced in 2022-2024.
– It is not, because we inciting to mess with the environment. But we can just see that there are opportunities for the many people who are faced with a van, that they can’t use anymore, ” says Jens Peter Larsen.
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Since the Danish tax system is value-based, it is cheaper to do the conversion on the oldest cars, how many cars from the start of the millennium can be re-registered to the passenger car for under $ 10,000. in the registration fee.
A registreringssyn is a part of the package, when you want to go from yellow to white number plates. Photo: Ole Frederiksen/Ritzau Scanpix
in a change from yellow to white number plates. In addition to the registration fee and a fee for the companies as f.ex Quickimport, as performing the treatment for Tax and a possibly. assessment of the car, you must pay for a registreringssyn and for new license plates as well as prøvemærker under the sight.
in Addition, the conversion with rear seats and belts.
From 1. July 2020 introduced environmental zones in the municipalities of Copenhagen, Aarhus, Odense and Aalborg, which include vans, which are registered before 1. January 2007 and does not have a particulate filter.
It is expandable 1. July 2022 to include cars registered before 1. January 2012, and pr. 1. July 2025 it will include vans registered before 1. september 2016.
Vehicle registration plates are recorded by cameras. It costs 1.500 kr. in the fine for commercial vehicles that run illegally entering the environmental zone.
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environmental zones: Ambiguity about the future
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There is just a joker in converting cars from yellow to white number plates. If the politicians decide to extend the scheme with the requirement for particulate filters in the lez to include passenger cars, it will limit the possibilities significantly.
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however, It is pt. unknown as to when the subject comes on the agenda, saith the FDM, where Dennis Long, who is a legal consultant, explains:
– the Government has announced that it is something that is in their thoughts. So it can happen within a foreseeable future. So you risk that a conversion is a waste of money, says Dennis Long, which, however, points to nothing is announced, and he believes that in all cases there must be a long period of time to get such rules in place.
– It is a political choice, how quickly you want to move it. Consumers must also have the time to respond. They can’t go down to the car dealer from one day to the other. They must also have a working day to function, ” says Dennis Long.
A Toyota Rav4 2,0 D 4x4x from 2005 to 2007, costs 8.000-15.000 kr. in the registration fee to rebuild. Photo: Toyota
from the Quickimport think, however, that there will go long before personbilerne comes with.
– It will affect many danes, because it will include a large part of the fleet, and have far-reaching consequences, believe Jens Peter Larsen, who does not believe that something will happen on that front in the next several years, because it will affect many danes.
He points on the that f.ex. running very many older cars without a particulate filter on the road, f.ex. from the PSA and Renault.
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Biløkonomi: Money saving
The most attractive cars to build on from 2009 to 2012, says analyst Jan Long. Photo: PR
According to Jan, who is an analyst at Bilbasen, there may be an economic benefit by a rebuild rather than to buy a similar model on white number plates.
He points to that as a starting point to have a need for the rear seats that it makes sense.
to rebuild the oldest, there is more to save by looking at the newer cars.
Over a comb, you can save 20.000-40.000 kr. by a transformation, and here is the most attractive for the year 2009-2012.
– this is The most sense, for here there is no charge to work with, says Jan Long.
It depends on the specific car, how big the saving is. He believes to return not that it is economically viable to invest in a particulate filter for an older van. So is it cheaper to upgrade to a newer and more environmentally friendly model, says the council.
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