Anyone buying a cargo bike these days usually finds out about existing subsidy programmes. This is also a profitable opportunity for dealers - provided they are up to date. Getting information quickly or even keeping an overview has not been easy up to now.
Arne Behrensen's new tool on cargobike.jetzt is designed to make the search easier. At www.cargobikekaufpraemien.jetzt interested buyers, dealers and manufacturers can find all the information compiled here. The site currently contains information sorted by federal state on 80 purchase incentive programmes in Germany and 20 in Austria.
Well-known partners and sponsors have been acquired to keep the site up to date. The ADFC regional associations Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg and Saxony and the project KlimaEntLaster from Austria, as partners of state-specific subpages, are responsible for updating them. Sponsors of the purchase premium overview are the green electricity provider Greenpeace Energythe tyre manufacturer Swallow and the bicycle parking system provider WSM.
If a bonus is missing, you can enter it on the website using a form.
Why subsidise cargo bikes through purchase premiums?
Cargobike.jetzt says: "Well-communicated and organised purchase incentives are an effective way of increasing awareness of cargo bikes and the willingness to buy them. Promoting cargo bikes through purchase incentives provides an important market stimulus for cargo bikes that are still little known in many places and for a young industry with predominantly small manufacturers. Cargobike purchase premiums make more sense than purchase premiums for electric cars when it comes to liveable cities and climate-friendly mobility over many short distances."
