Barcelona will offer grants of 600 euros to encourage people to switch to electric mopeds.

BarcelonaBarcelona City Council will offer subsidies to residents who want to trade in their combustion engine mopeds for electric ones. This Monday, Mayor Jaume Collboni announced that the council will offer €600 in aid to all Barcelona residents who wish to switch from the more polluting 49cc mopeds to an electric model. The program will launch on March 1, 2026, last four years, and is exclusively for drivers registered as residents of the Catalan capital. The plan will have an initial investment of €15 million and, as Collboni explained – after arriving on an electric motorcycle – aims to have Barcelona "a 100% electric, zero-emissions moped fleet" by 2030. Currently, there are 32,000 registered mopeds in Barcelona, ​​25% of which are already electric (8,000), while the rest are combustion-engine mopeds, according to city council data. To receive the €600 subsidy, two requirements must be met: being registered as a resident of Barcelona and scrapping the combustion-engine moped. As Collboni explained, an initial receipt will be issued at the scrapyard, and the second required document is the purchase invoice for the electric moped. Finally, with both documents, a form can be completed to access the subsidy directly. According to the City Council, the €600 subsidy for the vehicle conversion covers between 16% and 40% of the total price of an electric moped.

Collboni recalled that the Moves plan – the Spanish government's plan to encourage the purchase of electric vehicles- It does not affect mopeds, and for this reason they want to promote this new aid and "extend the incentives to all types of vehicles." The mayor also stated that the measure is designed especially for young people, who are the usual owners of 49cc motorcycles and "the group with the worst economic and employment conditions, who often lack the necessary resources to change their motorcycle."

64 battery swapping spaces

The program presented this Monday as part of the Climate Plan also includes allocating three million euros to install 64 new battery swapping stations. In this regard, grants of 45,000 euros will be offered to operators who wish to include this service at their facilities, provided they remain open for at least four years. The City Council anticipates that these stations will be located in public and private parking lots, as well as at gas stations.