Spanish Government helps fund purchase of electric bikes

The Spanish Government is to allocate 40 million euros (about $71million NZD) to promote the use of bicycles. For the first time, the government has included the bicycle in public transport subsidies. It is planning to subsidise with 20 million euros the purchase of electric bicycles by individuals or companies and allocate 20 million euros to reduce the cost of the current public bicycle systems that already exist in Madrid and Barcelona. It then plans to extend the use of this form of transport to other Spanish cities.

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