ELMO programme

The Government of the Republic of Estonia concluded a contract with Mitsubishi Corporation for the sale of AAUs in the amount of 10 million AAUs to start the Estonian electrical mobility programme.

The programme consists of three parts: 500 Mitsubishi iMiev electric cars were commissioned by the Ministry of Social Affairs as an example, the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications developed a support system for private persons for acquisition of electric cars and infrastructure for charging electric cars will be created to cover the whole country. Distribution of the purchase grant and the construction of the quick charging network is organised and managed by KredEx.

The purpose of the programme is on the one hand to speed up the commissioning of electric cars in Estonia and on the other hand to fulfil the goal undertaken by the state to increase the use of renewable energy in transport by year 2020.

More details about the ELMO programme at www.elmo.ee