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Spain's new EUR 400 million EV subsidy funds cars, not charge points

Kirjoittanut Berend Simons
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Spain's Plan MOVES III, the subsidy scheme that had funded both electric vehicle purchases and private charge point installation, expired on December 31, 2025. Its replacement, Programa Auto+, took effect on July 24, 2026 under Royal Decree 609/2026, published in the BOE the previous day. It carries a EUR 400 million budget for 2026, split into EUR 350 million for individual buyers and EUR 50 million for businesses, freelancers and small companies, covering passenger cars, light commercial vehicles and electric motorcycles.

What Auto+ does not cover is charge point installation. Article 1 of the decree scopes it strictly to vehicle acquisition, so anyone installing a charger at home or at a business site gets nothing from this program, unlike MOVES III before it.

The one adjacent program, MOVES Corredores, is a separate EUR 200 million fund for high-power public charging corridors, not private or workplace installations, and its 2026 application window already closed on February 10. For now the only relief left for the cost of a private charge point is the existing 15 percent personal and corporate income tax deduction, extended through the end of 2026, a deduction rather than a grant. No new charge point subsidy has surfaced to replace MOVES III as of this writing.

For anyone installing chargers in Spain, that shifts the calculation: with no grant to offset the hardware cost, the running cost and the software choice behind it matter more. A free OCPP back office removes at least one recurring line from that budget.

Sources: BOE-A-2026-16010, IDAE, Programa MOVES Corredores.