Purchase of Used Electric Vehicles - 2025

This page contains information related to the grant scheme applicable in 2025.

The information included in this page is meant to provide information about this incentive scheme, without prejudice to any provision in the respective scheme as published on the government gazzette, downloadable here.

This financial incentive intends to promote the use of used electric vehicles which have not benfited from any other incentive scheme and is aimed at persons residing in Malta, Local Councils, voluntary organisations and undertakings established in Malta.

For a comparison of the average price to drive 100km with an electric vehicle and with a conventional vehicle, check here.

This incentive allows a mix and match of purchase of used electric vehicles, and replacement of old vehicles. The grant shall support the purchase of:

Passenger cars;
Small commercial vehicles;
Quadricycles;
Motorcycles.

For this scheme, a Used Electric Vehicle is defined as an electric vehicle originating from any of the following countries, and which was put into free circulation in such country before its entry into Malta:

any Member State of the European Union;
the United Kingdom;
the Channel Islands (Guernsey and Jersey);
the Isle of Man;
Monaco;
Andorra;
San Marino; or
Northern Ireland.

The grant includes a scrappage scheme intended to provide further financial support to applicants who, while purchasing and registering a used electric vehicle, deregister a category L, M1 or N vehicle which is at least 10 years old from its year of manufacture.

Every applicant is entitled to a maximum of one grant under this scheme.

The Incentive Details

Subject to the scheme conditions, the following grant amounts shall be paid for each used electric vehicle registered by any applicant.

Category of Used Vehicle	• Older than 1 day, AND • Not older than 3 months.	• Older than 3 months, AND • Not older than 6 months.
L	€1,000	€750
Category M1 Vehicles: Cars with up to 9 seats	€4,000	€3,000
Category N1 Vehicles: Vans weighing up to 3,500kg	€4,000	€3,000

Scrappage Grant (Optional)

Type of Scrapped Vehicle		Grant Amount
	Category L Vehicles: Mopeds, 3-wheeled Mopeds, Motorcycles, Motorcycles with Side-Car, Tricycles or Quadricycles	€500
	Category M1 Vehicles: Cars with up to 9 seats	Last licence expired more than 3 months before it is scrapped at a destruction facility: €500 Last licence expired not more than 3 months before it is scrapped at a destruction facility: €1,000
	Category N1 Vehicles: Vans weighing up to 3,500kg

IMPORTANT NOTICE

There are ONLY 10 destruction facilities authorised to destroy cars in line with the end-of-life directive. The list of approved facilities is available on TM’s website and the scrapping form VEH 13.
It is illegal to garage and/or sell a vehicle for parts. Vehicle owners must dispose of their vehicles at authorised destruction facilities ONLY. Only these are certified to issue destruction certificates.
After this process, the vehicle owner must visit Transport Malta and present the number plates, destruction certificate, and registration certificate (logbook) to have the vehicle officially scrapped and deregistered with TM.
If an applicant intends to avail from the scrapping scheme it is of outmost importance that the vehicle must be in the name of the applicant before the vehicle is taken to the destruction facility and before the used electric vehicle is registered. It is illegal to purchase a vehicle which has already been destructed at the facility and try to transfer it on your name with the Authority. A vehicle CANNOT be transferred once it is scrapped with the Authority.

Terms and Conditions

Scrapped vehicle must be at least 10 years old from the Year of Manufacture on the date of destruction.
The Scrapped vehicle must be licensed with Transport Malta in the name of the applicant before its destruction and before the registration of the used electric vehicle or, in the case of pedelecs, before the date of purchase.
Deregistered vehicles which had benefitted from the provisions of S.L.65.24 shall not be eligible for this scrappage scheme.
Vehicles must be scrapped at Authorised Treatment Facilities approved in compliance with the Waste Management (End of Life) Regulations – S.L.549.36. Destruction Certificates issued must be dated 2024 or 2025.
If the scrapped vehicle was continuously registered in Gozo between the 11th October 2021 and the date of scrappage, and the bank account to which the applicant requests the issue of the grant is registered on an address in Gozo, applicant shall be entitled for an additional scrappage grant of €1,000.

GENERAL NOTE: The total grant issued to applicants for any of these incentives shall not exceed the purchase price of the used electric vehicle.

Applying for this Incentive

Applications shall be submitted by the purchaser after the used electric vehicle has been registered by submitting application form VEH077 along with any information, details and documents required therein. The purchaser of the vehicle shall be considered as the ultimate applicant in terms of this scheme.

In the case of an application within the scope of the De Minimis State Aid*, the State Aid Declaration VEH071 is also required.

Applications under this scheme, together with all the relevant documents, shall be submitted by the applicant during working hours or mailed to Transport Malta’s Driver and Vehicle Licensing Unit (DVLU). For opening hours and addresses refer here.

*Depending on the sector of activity of the applicant, the De Minimis rules stipulated in Commission Regulation (EU) No. 2023/2831, Commission Regulation (EU) No. 1408/2013 or Commission Regulation (EU) No. 717/2014 shall apply.

Requests for Revision of Authority’s decisions

If you feel that a decision taken by the Authority concerning your application for a grant is incorrect, you can request a revision of this decision by following the procedure explained here.

Page Last Updated: 09/04/2025