Portal for the e-bikes bonus campaign - Bologna
Bologna (Italy)
The City of Bologna new incentive (bonus) campaign for the purchase of electric bikes and cargo bikes started on 13 Sept. 2022.
Any resident in the City of Bologna or anyone who lives in the metropolitan area of Bologna and works in organisations and companies that have signed a mobility management agreement with the Municipality of Bologna can buy a pedal-assisted bicycle or cargo bike and apply for this incentive.
The amount of the contribution increases from 300 to 500 euro for pedal-assisted e-bicycles and from 600 euro to 1,000 euro for pedal-assisted e-cargo bikes. As in previous years, the incentive may not exceed 50 per cent of the expenditure incurred for the purchase.
The subsidies are liquidated, according to the order of submission, until the fund, amounting to 1 million euro financed, under the National Operational Programme for Metropolitan Cities 2014-2020 - React Eu, is exhausted.
Applications can be submitted exclusively via SPID (National eID) in the dedicated portal, where all details can be found, steps are clearly managed and the amount of remaining found stated.
The Municipality's objective was to incentivise the purchase of a further 2,000 electric bicycles, which would bring to 7,000 the total number of vehicles incentivised by the Municipality since 2011, confirming Bologna as one of the most avant-garde cities in this field.
The initiative is in line with the Metropolitan City's PUMS (Sustainable Mobility Urban Plan), which envisages a 40% reduction in traffic emissions by 2030 compared to 1990, with the Bologna Municipality's PGTU (General Urban Traffic Plan) and with the local Bici-plan, as part of an articulated programme of actions designed to make the presence of cyclists in the city easier and safer, and aimed at increasing their number.
