The wait is over. And from tomorrow, October 22, at 12, Italians who want to take advantage of the incentives for the purchase of an electric car will be able to access the specific web platform. The 2025 version of the bonus is very different from previous editions and dedicated to very specific bands of citizenship.
How the new 2025 electric car incentive works
The 2025 decree of the Ministry for the Environment and Energy Security was financed with resources from the National Recovery and Resilience Plan after its remodulation, which made 597 million euros available, was approved last August 8 and published in the Gazette in September.
Up to 11 thousand euros for citizens and 20 thousand for micro-enterprises
The law provides for up to 11 thousand euros as a non-repayable grant for the purchase of an electric car for citizens (with a limit of 40 thousand euros of ISEE) and up to 20 thousand euros for micro-enterprises for the purchase of commercial vehicles.
Who can request the bonus: citizens and micro-businesses in urban areas
The intervention is reserved for natural persons and micro-enterprises with residence or registered office in functional urban areas (cities with over 50,000 inhabitants and commuting areas). Precisely this criterion led to a prolonged wait for the entry into force of the provision because Istat was reviewing the map of functional urban areas stopped in 2011 and it was therefore not clear whether to wait for the new ones or make use of the old ones.
The new functional urban areas updated by Istat
The solution chosen, which arrived yesterday evening, was that of a sort of integration, thus allowing both the citizens indicated in the old list (1,892 municipalities) and those of the new 368 municipalities now included with the revision just completed by the Institute of Statistics, to access the bonus.
Il Mase: “Continuity of rights and expanded audience”
The Mase thus explained that it wanted to ensure the continuity of the rights already recognised, “avoiding any potential penalization deriving from supervening variations, as well as guaranteeing the extension of the number of those entitled”.
From tomorrow the online platform will therefore be accessible to citizens and businesses. To access the contribution, it will be necessary to scrap a combustion vehicle up to Euro 5. The measure also includes an anti-theft rule: anyone who accesses the incentives must be the first owner of the car to be scrapped for at least six months.
The 2025 provision is not very popular with dealers due to the limitations it has set, while consumers now applaud the expansion of functional urban areas but underline that in any case due to this requirement “about half of Italians will still be excluded from the incentive, as they do not reside in areas with heavy commuting”.
The objective envisaged by the Minister of the Environment and Energy Security Gilberto Pichetto Fratin at the time of the announcement of the decree is to achieve the purchase of at least 39 thousand zero-emission vehicles by the first half of 2026.