Yesterday, the National Audit Office strongly criticized the current support schemes for electric goods vehicles and trucks that do not work. On the same day, SV proposes to change the support schemes in its alternative state budget for 2024.
– I would like to give SV praise for a constructive proposal on a major problem. The Storting should adopt this, says Erik Andresen, director of the Bilimportørenes Landsforening (BIL). BIL has long pointed out that the electrification of vans and trucks is moving far too slowly so that we reach the climate targets. The reason is that the electric alternatives are significantly more expensive than trucks with diesel engines. BIL has pointed out that the current ENOVA support does not work, and that there is not least a need for a cash support model for electric vans.
Karl Eirik Schjøtt-Pedersen. Enova has been aware that the support schemes for electric vans and trucks have not worked as intended, but has nevertheless spent a long time adjusting the support schemes, the National Audit Office writes in a press release. Photo: Mathias Fossum / The National Audit Office
The National Audit Office points to the same thing when they Thursday criticized Enova too weak support schemes for electric vans and trucks. The National Audit Office believes that “the requirements for grant recipients have made the support scheme for electric goods and trucks ineffective” and that “there is a risk that the target set for trucks will not be reached.”
– If we are to cut emissions, there must be more electric vans and lorries on the roads. We are far behind the targets in the National Transport Plan when it comes to the pace of phasing in. I therefore hope that the Storting can agree to the proposal to increase support for electric trucks, as it appears in SV’s alternative budget for 2024. This will be an important signal that they are not keeping up with electrifying the passenger car fleet, says Andresen. He refers to recent emission figures from Statistics Norway which arrived this week. They show that the emissions from road transport are at rest, precisely because a too slow phase-in of zero-emission vans and trucks. Achievement of the government’s climate targets from the Green Book rests on an assumption that the sales targets from National Transport Plan must be reached. This means that all new heavy goods vehicles must be zero-emission vehicles from 2030 and 50 per cent of new trucks must use zero-emission technology.
– We do not agree with what the government has put forward about electric cars now. It is also a breach of the Hurdal platform and the promises that Ap and Sp gave before the election, says Kari Elisabeth Kaski (SV).
The government faction’s chief negotiator, Eigil Knudsen, should listen to SV’s Kari Elisabeth Kaski, when they start negotiations on next year’s budget this week. The Støre government is keen to have a credible plan to halve emissions by 2030. Then we cannot do without improving the support schemes for electric vans and trucks, says Andresen. He points out that BIL, in the parliamentary hearing on the budget, requested that the government investigate possible incentive schemes for zero-emission vans and heavy trucks. This is a prerequisite for the green shift in road traffic to include all vehicle groups.
Facts These are the sales targets from NTPD The overall targets for the development of the vehicle fleet were set in relation to National Transport Plan:• New passenger cars and light vans must be zero-emission vehicles from 2025.• New heavy-duty vans must be zero-emission vehicles from 2030.• New city buses must use zero-emission technology or biogas from 2024.• By 2030, 75 per cent of new long-distance buses and 50 per cent of new trucks use zero-emission technology.• By 2030, 50 percent of new trucks must be zero-emission vehicles This is how the phase-in of the vehicles is goingRight now this is the status, according to the Government’s Green Book:• 8 out of 10 passenger cars zero emissions• 3 out of 10 light vans zero emissions• 4 out of 10 heavy vans zero emissions• 9 out of 10 city buses zero emissions• 3 out of 10 long-distance buses zero emissions• 1 out of 10 trucks zero emissions