Pedro Sánchez presents the Spain Auto 2030 Plan to support supply and demand and promote an "affordable Spanish electric car"

Ministry of Industry and Tourism, Madrid

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The President of the Government of Spain, Pedro Sánchez, has presented the Spain Auto 2030 Plan, the result of public-private collaboration, which includes a series of measures with "much more favourable regulations" for the sector and incentives to support supply and demand, and promote "an affordable Spanish electric car". To this end, the plan focuses on the cost of electric vehicles, the infrastructure-with the charging point network-and the innovation and competitiveness of the sector, while also contributing to the fight against climate change.

"Today we are here so that Spain can manufacture electric cars that are as competitive as our talent allows and affordable enough for Spaniards to buy", because "the electrification of the automobile is here to stay. It's about everyone benefiting from it", explained Pedro Sánchez during the closing ceremony of the presentation of the Spain Auto 2030 Plan, which also included speeches by the Third Vice-President of the Government of Spain and Minister for Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge, Sara Aagesen, and the Minister for Industry and Tourism, Jordi Hereu.

Pedro Sánchez pointed out that "today, owning a car is no longer a status symbol, but buying an electric car represents a significant initial investment for many families", which "in the long run, is worthwhile due to the savings in fuel and maintenance and for cleaner air on our streets".

He encourages "stepping on the accelerator for electric cars" with a "national plan"

Therefore, he emphasised that "we have to step on the accelerator for electric cars," by expanding charging points, lowering the prices of these vehicles, and combating misinformation about this type of transportation, which is "good for our industry and for continuing to create quality jobs in a key sector for the Spanish economy".

The automotive industry contributes close to 10% of GDP, generates almost 2 million direct and indirect jobs, making Spain the second largest manufacturer in Europe. In this regard, he stressed that the Auto Plan is "a national plan," to ensure that "Spain reaches the end of the decade having done its homework". Therefore, this package of measures has been designed as "a comprehensive and horizontal plan, the result of close collaboration and dialogue with the private sector", and a strategy has been articulated around three main pillars.

Impact on cost: The Auto+ Plan with €400 million to incentivise purchases

The first pillar focuses on price, to "manufacture electric cars in Spain that can be affordable for the middle and working classes of our country" and not "exclude the middle and working classes from this Green Deal", President Sánchez stated. However, he acknowledged that significant progress has been made, given that the lifetime cost of an electric car is 10% lower than that of a combustion engine vehicle; a 40% reduction when subsidies and tax incentives are included.

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"Next year we will see a flood of electric models priced under €25,000". This is the way forward and the Government of Spain intends to pursue it in partnership with the industry", he stated. He then announced that the government will launch a new aid programme to further incentivise the purchase of electric vehicles: the Auto+ Plan, endowed with €400 million in direct purchase subsidies in 2026, following the €1.7 billion already mobilised through the Moves Plan.

These subsidies will be managed by the central government, not the regional governments, to "guarantee greater speed and consistency in the process and ensure that payments reach families when they need them". The model to follow is the Reinicia Auto + Plan launched to mitigate the effects of the DANA storm and which, a year on from the tragedy, has ensured that "95% of the requested aid is in the pockets of Valencians".

New Moves Corridors Plan with €300 million for charging points

The second priority of the Spain Auto Plan 2030 focuses on infrastructure, aiming to increase the number of charging points. Pedro Sánchez announced that next year a new Moves Corridors Plan will be launched, with a budget of €300 million, which will help deploy charging points in so-called 'shadow zones' - that is, roads where the necessary charging points are not yet available.

The licenses and permits required to install charging points will also be drastically reduced, and a single website for charging points has been launched. This set of measures has contributed to an increase of more than 50% this year in the map of public charging points over 43 kW, exceeding 40,000 points. In fact, more than €600 million has already been allocated for the deployment of charging points through Moves III, Moves Fleets, and Moves Singulares, the head of the Executive explained.

The Moves III Plan alone has subsidised the purchase of more than 170,000 electrified vehicles (pure electric and plug-in hybrid), in addition to which sales have doubled so far in 2025 and more than 140,000 public and private charging points have been financed, President Sánchez stated. However, given the "lack of infrastructure and excessive bureaucracy", he has requested that "all levels of government commit to this major transformation", taking a stand against "those who spread misinformation about electric cars, spreading lies and unfounded alarms with a single purpose: to generate distrust among consumers".

Innovation and competitiveness: 580 million more for PERTE VEC

Finally, the third pillar of the Plan will strengthen innovation and competitiveness in the sector. In this regard, Pedro Sánchez pointed out that, while in the past "cars made in Spain, like the Seat 600, were produced, in the future we must aspire to design cars made by Spain, as a distinctive mark of quality linked to our country".

Spain is currently the second largest vehicle manufacturer in Europe and the ninth largest in the world, although the president pointed out that "now it is about leading in the manufacture and recycling of batteries, and in the transformation of the entire value chain: from design to large assembly plants, including SMEs that guarantee the supply of components", and therefore announced that this "virtuous circle" will continue to be supported in 2026 with an additional 580 million euros for the PERTE for Electric and Connected Vehicles (PERTE VEC).

In recent years, the government has granted more than €3 billion through PERTE VEC and has supported major projects, such as the transformation of production plants and the construction of new gigafactories in Sagunto (Valencia), Figueruelas (Zaragoza), and Navalmoral de la Mata (Cáceres).

Aagesen: "We are in the decade of electrification"

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The Third Vice-President of the Government of Spain and Minister for Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge, Sara Aagesen, stressed that climate change is advancing and the decisions taken this decade will be "fundamental for the well-being of future generations". Therefore, she urged the fight against misinformation and stressed that the Green Agenda "is moving forward strongly" and that this decade is the one of the "electrification" of economic activity and transportation.

Thus, she pointed out that the Auto Plan will strengthen the industrial ecosystem and contribute to progress in decarbonisation, autonomy, reindustrialisation, and pollution reduction, following initiatives such as the Integrated National Energy and Climate Plan, an "unprecedented" aid framework of more than €2.4 billion mobilised in the last seven years, and the Moves Plan, which has incentivised more than 350,000 projects, mainly in charging infrastructure throughout the country, among others.

Hereu: "We will advance in one of the country's most strategic industrial transformations"

In this vein, the Minister for Industry and Tourism, Jordi Hereu, stressed that the plan is a "great opportunity" and confirms the strategy that Spain has been developing for the last seven years to commit to sustainability and advance reindustrialisation and strategic autonomy throughout the value chain.

Hereu emphasised that the plan will move forward "with greater strength" and will provide "certainty, confidence and unity of action" to undertake "one of the most strategic industrial transformations" in Spain.

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