Carmakers extend their own recycling program at their own expense
OREANDA-NEWS. Carmakers without waiting for help from the state began to renew their own recycling program or trade-in.
According to the newspaper "Vedomosti", the allocated 15 billion rubles from the federal budget in 2015 for the state program of parc renovation will be disbursed before the end of July by automakers, Minister of Industry and Trade, Denis Manturov, informed "Vedomosti" a week ago. For the rest five months it was pre-decided to allocate an additional 5 billion rubles, he said. There is no government decision - it is expected that the document will be signed in August, said a source close to the Ministry of Industry. But carmakers are not waiting for government assistance, began to renew their own recycling program or trade-in.
The program of parc renovation of AvtoVAZ will be extended "at least for August" for the entire range, said a source close to the company. "It will run the recycling program in the Lada showrooms in August," - confirmed a representative of AvtoVAZ. Discount – is up to 50 thousand rubles.
Hyundai, according to its representative, decided to extend the loyalty program for August H-Promise (discounts in exchange of the old car of the brand to new one), and to expand the number of participating models. In July, there were three of them (produced at “Avtotor” Equus and i40, as well as imported Elantra), and the list will be added in August by imported i30, Santa Fe and Grand Santa Fe. Discount – is up to 100 thousand rubles. For August it was extended the recycling program, in which produced in Russia Solaris participates: hatchback in standard configuration and maximum - sedan (discount - is up to 55 thousand rubles).
"Since August, we plan to continue [the recycling program and the trade-in] at our own expense with the same model range as before," - said a spokesman of Nissan. For the purchase of manufactured in Russia Sentra, Almera, X-Trail, Terrano, Qashqai (this model will be mass-produced in St. Petersburg), as well as imported Juke the discounts will b up to 100 thousand rubles.
Toyota extended the program of Park renovation, it involves manufactured in Russia Camry, Land Cruiser Prado, as well as imported RAV 4 (the production in Russia will begin in 2016) and Land Cruiser 200, said a company spokesman. Discount – is up to 160 thousand rubles.
Representatives of Kia and UAZ declined to comment. Representatives of Volkswagen, Renault, KAMAZ have not responded “Vedomosti”. The representative of the Ford Sollers said the decision is not yet. "GAZ Group" decided not to hurry. "We have already provided in the II quarter discounts for recycling in amount of 1 billion Rubles for our own account, so in August we did not renew the program", - the vice president group, Elena Matveeva, informed Vedomosti".
The mechanism is already debugged and automakers have no reason to doubt about the receipt of funds to compensate for the discounts, said an employee of one of the automobile plants. Another thing is that the 5 billion rubles until the end of 2015 look as a small amount compared to the first half of year. Perhaps that is why some companies are thinking about how to dispose effectively the state support, he says. "The program is very important definitely in such a difficult time for the Russian automobile market time", - said the representative of Nissan. In the current environment, "the discount - is a necessary measure to promote sales,"- he said. In 2015, sales of passenger cars and light commercial vehicles fell by 10.3% to 2.49 million units, in the first half of 2015 - by 36.4% to 782,094 units, according to the AEB. At the same time from January 1st to July 19th, according to the program of renovation of the park it was sold 186,047 cars of different types, says the data of Ministry of Industry and Trade.
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