Since January 2 Scooters, off the sidewalks no more than 25 km / h
Reform. Streets at 20 km / h, scooters on the road, six points for picking up the mobile ... Changes to reduce accidents by 50%
Everyone wanting to lose sight of the unfortunate 2020 to enter 2021 ... which is not exactly loaded with good gifts when it comes to buying and using the car.
Some of these changes are already dated, others are on the way - which leaves room to soften them - and for others, alternatives are being sought to mitigate their impact.
Certainly there are few positives, although some, such as those related to traffic, pursue the noble aim of reducing the accident rate.
100% electric and 'plug-in' hybrids will escape the price hike
MORE EXPENSIVE TAXES AND INSURANCE
Since January 1, CO2 emissions are measured with the WLTP protocol, which gives values 20% higher on average (as it is a more realistic measurement) and will involve increases in the Registration tax, which is set by CO2.
Result: there will be an average price increase of 5% for half of the cars, since many will go from not paying it to trading at 4.75% and others will jump the section.
For example, in a model that cost 20,000 euros in 2020, another 800 will have to be added.
The 100% electric, plug-in hybrids are left out (for which a Moves III Plan will be launched much more ambitious than the 2020 one with 100 million ).
Nor will many pure hybrids be affected, but for the rest (pure gasoline and diesel) although the Renove 2020 aid will not be extended to compensate for the rise in part, the
Treasury has committed to negotiating formulas with the sector that mitigate its impact.
In principle, manufacturers and dealers have said that they have no margin to assume these price increases.
For its part,
the rise from 6% to 8% in the insurance premium will entail a cost of between 4.55 and 10 euros for the 32 million insured vehicles
.
In Spain, 78% of households have a car policy, according to Unespa.
All this while
a reform of the taxation of the car is
still
pending that will penalize the use and not the purchase.
Although last year a draft of the Registration tax was leaked from which only the 100% electric ones escaped.
WILL THE FUELS RISE?
The Government intends that the
7,000 million euros that are allocated to renewable energies are now paid not only with the electricity bill (which will decrease), but among all energy consumption.
And according to the oil companies, the part that they will have to assume can do, if everything is transferred to the consumer, that
the liter of fuel becomes more expensive up to seven cents per liter
.
In return, the Executive negotiated with the PNV to
delay until 2022 the diesel tax,
which would start at 3.9 cents per liter to match Europe and what gasoline pays.
MORE FINES AND LESS SPEED
The year has started with the new regulations for scooters and from the
beginning of May the new speed limits will begin to operate in the city: 80% of the streets will be 30 km / h, so a fine for going 51 km / h will mean losing two points and a 300 euro fine.
In addition, the procedure will begin - it is expected to be long - to
tighten the penalties for the mobile
(it will be enough to carry it in the hand),
not to use the belt or helmet or to have a radar detector installed in the car.
And they want to end the rule that allows overtaking the road limit by 20 km / h.
On the positive side,
the DGT announced that this year, in traffic jams, it will allow motorcycles to circulate on the shoulder without exceeding 40 km / h.
REFORM OF THE DGT LABELS
Before the summer,
this system should be modified in agreement with the sector.
In the pillory are the light hybrids or mild hybrid, which could no longer be ECO as before.
And it remains to be seen what is done with plug-in hybrids, today with the same privileges as 100% electric.
In any case, the changes will never be retroactive.
The DGT itself has recognized it.
Electronic toll cameras on a toll road in Portugal
PAY FOR THE HIGHWAYS.
It is a possibility that has been considered for years in order to pay for its maintenance (about 1,100 million per year in the State network).
Only
now it is wanted to be included in the draft of the Mobility Law that will be processed this year.
The Minister of Development, José Luis Ábalos, referred at the end of 2020 to "a symbolic price"
with respect to what is paid for a highway.
An adjective that cannot be applied to the proposal of
the Seopan road construction companies: nine cents per kilometer for cars, which would be 31 euros to go from Madrid to Valencia.
As a minor consolation, the prices of highway tolls should fall (due to the negative CPI) and, from August, 640 kilometers will become free.
Two sections are divided between two sections of the AP-7, one between Tarragona and La Jonquera, of 246 kilometers;
and another between Montmeló and el Papiol, of 179. In addition, the highway in AP-2 becomes free the 215 kilometers between Alfajarín (Zaragoza) and El Vendrell (Tarragona).
The V-16 light can be placed on the roof without leaving the car
GOODBYE TO THE EMERGENCY TRIANGLES
During the first quarter of this year, the Royal Decree on Roadside Assistance will be approved, which will
introduce luminous lights that can be placed on the roof of the car when we suffer a mishap or breakdown.
In other words, they will prevent the driver from having to leave the vehicle to place the emergency triangles
, a particularly dangerous situation that leads to numerous fatal accidents every year.
The so-called V-16 is a luminous beacon whose
flashes can be seen in a radius of one kilometer,
also in low visibility conditions.
In addition, they come prepared for connection to the cloud,
so that they automatically notify the insurance company of the incident.They have a price of around 22 euros and
will not be mandatory until 2024,
so that in that time motorists can replace the triangles.
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