Jannis Hug – electrive.com

Italy shuts down EV subsidy application portal after nine hours

Italy's government launched its announced subsidy programme for 'clean vehicles' on Monday. The budget of around 200 million euros earmarked for purely electric cars was used up after less than nine hours.

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