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The grant is not the headline figure: it is that figure times the criteria your car meets. Put yours in and see what is left.

The grant is not the headline figure: it is that figure times the criteria your vehicle meets.
Grant you would get
€3,375.00
Maximum in the annex
€4,500.00
Percentage reached
75 %
Criteria that add up on the maximum
Electric criterion (E1)+50 %
Price criterion (E2)+25 %
Criteria added up75 %
Grant awarded€3,375.00
Compulsory dealer discount€1,000.00
Total saving on the purchase€4,375.00
  • It falls €1,125.00 short of the maximum because it does not meet every criterion. That maximum is only paid in full when all four add up.
  • You must keep the vehicle in your name and registered in Spain for two years from the award, or repay the grant in full (art. 10.1.d).
  • If the call's budget runs out, later applications join a waiting list in strict order of filing that creates no entitlement at all (art. 5.4).
The two European criteria, and the discount the dealer pays

They add up to 25 more points and depend on where the car was assembled and where the battery came from, which are not on the registration document: you have to ask the dealer.

On top of the grant, the invoice for a new car or van must show a discount of at least €1,000.00 applied by the point of sale (art. 8.3.b).5).

Video: how to use the calculator

1

The grant is a sum of criteria, not a figure

Annexes II and III of Royal Decree 609/2026 set a maximum per vehicle type: €4,500 for a car, €5,000 for a van, €1,100 for a motorcycle and €1,500 for a quadricycle in Line 1, which is the one for private buyers. That number is what the headlines carry and it is almost never what gets paid, because paragraph 2 of both annexes requires the grant to be worked out «cumulatively» as a percentage of that maximum. The electric criterion gives 50 % to a battery-electric vehicle and 25 % to a plug-in hybrid or range-extender. The price criterion adds 25 % if the car costs up to €35,000 and 15 % above that. And the European criterion adds a further 15 % if final assembly took place at an industrial facility in the European Union, plus another 10 % if the battery was assembled in the EU too. All four together come to exactly 100 %, and that is the only case in which the full maximum is paid.

2

Why the same headline is worth €4,500 or €1,800

It is worth seeing with two real cars. A battery-electric car costing €30,000, assembled in the European Union and with a European battery, adds 50 + 25 + 15 + 10, which is 100 % of €4,500: it collects the full €4,500. A plug-in hybrid costing €40,000 and assembled outside the Union adds 25 + 15, which is 40 %: it collects €1,800. Same programme, same vehicle category, same maximum, and a gap of two and a half times. Neither figure is surprising on its own; what is surprising is that both come out of the same advertised number. So the first useful question is not what the programme pays but what percentage your car reaches, and that is what this calculator shows criterion by criterion, so the figure can be checked against the gazette.

3

The ceilings that rule a car out

Three doors close before anything is worked out. The first is the environmental badge: article 1.1 excludes from the programme every vehicle without the CERO badge issued by the Spanish traffic authority, so a non-plug-in hybrid is out however little it burns. The second is price: annex II caps a car at €45,000 and a motorcycle at €10,000, and that price is measured on the invoice, before tax, including all extras, accessories and services tied to the sale and after commercial discounts, so a €44,000 car with €2,000 of extras falls outside. The third applies only to Line 2: a car with eight or nine seats has no price ceiling, while one with up to seven does. And M2 and M3 buses and N2 and N3 lorries are always out; they have programmes of their own.

4

Who is buying changes the maximum, and by a lot

The programme has two lines. Line 1 is for adults who do NOT carry on an economic activity and are legally resident in Spain. Line 2 is for those who do, company or sole trader, and it also covers renting and finance leases signed in Spain on a contract of at least three years. Within Line 2, annex III carries three tables rather than one. A sole trader or a micro-firm reaches €6,000 for a car and €7,500 for a van. A larger company stops at €4,500 and €5,000, which is exactly what a private buyer gets. And sole traders and micro-firms that come in through the line co-financed by the Social Climate Fund reach €7,000 for a car and €12,000 for a van, the largest amount in the programme, in exchange for a strict condition: that line only takes zero-emission vehicles and expressly excludes plug-in hybrids.

5

The discount the dealer has to put in

There is one condition of the programme that is not a grant and behaves like one. Article 8.3.b).5 requires the invoice to «evidence a discount of at least 1,000 euros on the sale price (excluding taxes)», recorded under a heading unmistakably tied to the Auto+ programme, provided the vehicle is new and in category M1 or N1. So the buyer of a new car does not only receive the state subsidy: the point of sale is additionally obliged to knock a thousand euros off and to write it on the invoice. On the €3,375 grant of a battery-electric car at €30,000 with no European criteria, that comes to €4,375 of total saving. The only exception is in the first transitional provision, for vehicles bought before the 2026 application window opened: on those the invoice need not show it.

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What this calculator does not decide

Three things are deliberately left out. The first is the exact dates of the call: article 6 only sets the ceiling, that the window «shall run until 15 October of the current year at the latest», and the specific date is fixed by a ministerial order published through the National Subsidy Database, so it has to be looked up there and not here. The second is the European battery criterion: the second transitional provision conditions that extra 10 % on the model being included in the programme’s White List, so it cannot be self-assessed and the specific model has to be checked. And the third is the Social Climate Fund line, whose scope is narrowed in each call to particular activities of the CNAE-2025 classification. The calculator says which band you fall into and flags all three, which is more honest than inventing a date or a list.

Worked example

A battery-electric car at €30,000 before tax, bought by a private buyer and without the European criteria. The maximum for its category in Line 1 is €4,500. The electric criterion contributes 50 % and the price criterion another 25 %, because the price does not reach €35,000, so the total is 75 % and the grant is €3,375. It falls €1,125 short of the maximum, and that shortfall is exactly the two European criteria this car does not meet. Add the compulsory dealer discount and the total saving on the purchase is €4,375.

Frequently asked questions

Does the Plan MOVES still exist in 2026?
Not as a state programme. Its article 4.1 left it in force until 31 December 2024, Royal Decree-law 3/2025 re-established it for 2025 only, and since 24 July 2026 the state purchase grant has been the Auto+ programme under Royal Decree 609/2026.
How much do you actually get for an electric car?
It depends on four things: whether it is pure electric or plug-in, what it costs, where it was assembled and where the battery came from. On a car the maximum is €4,500 and the real grant runs from €1,800 to €4,500 depending on how many criteria it adds up.
Do you have to scrap an old car to claim it?
No. MOVES III paid more if you scrapped an old vehicle; the Auto+ programme has no scrappage criterion at all. In its place it has put the European criterion, which rewards where the car and the battery were built.
Do you apply through your region?
Not any more. MOVES III was granted to the regions and each opened its own call; article 2.1 of Auto+ says the scope is «the whole national territory» and it is run by the Ministry of Industry and Tourism.
What is the deadline to apply?
Each call sets its own, and article 6 caps it: 15 October of the current year, extended to 31 December only where the funding behind it can be carried over.
What happens when the money runs out?
You can still apply, but the application joins a waiting list in strict order of filing that is only reached if others withdraw. Article 5.4 says expressly that being on that list creates no entitlement to payment.
Can you sell the car after receiving the grant?
Not for two years. Article 10.1.d) requires you to keep the vehicle in your name and registered in Spain for two years from the award, except on theft, accident, serious manufacturing defect or death, and otherwise the whole grant has to be repaid.
Does a plug-in hybrid qualify?
Yes, provided it carries the CERO badge, but it gets half on the electric criterion: 25 % instead of 50 %. The exception is the Social Climate Fund line, which only takes zero-emission vehicles.
Is the price the one on the invoice including VAT?
No. The annexes say prices are «on the invoice, before tax», including all extras, accessories and services tied to the sale and after commercial discounts. That is the base on which the €45,000 and €10,000 ceilings are measured.
Can a company in difficulty apply?
Since 11 September 2026, yes. Royal Decree 724/2026 rewrote article 4.2 and removed the exclusion of undertakings in difficulty that the original wording carried for Line 2.

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