The Ministry of the Environment launched the Rabla Classic and Rabla Plus programs for 2024
Petre Barac
Posted On March 20, 2024
Environment Minister Mircea Fechet announced the start of registrations in the Rabla Classic and Rabla Plus programs, at the Ford Otosan factory in Craiova. This year, the budget for Rabla Plus is 1 billion RON, and for Rabla Classic – 300 million RON.
“I am happy that we are launching Rabla for vehicles at the Ford factory. I am pleasantly impressed by the large number of employees, by the figures that define Ford Romania’s activity: every 61 seconds a car leaves the factory, and 1000 engines are produced every day. We have seen how important new technology is and how important the investments made here are. The record budget of 1 billion RON for green transport correlates very well with the news that Ford Romania will soon produce the first electric car.
We are waiting to see the first electric car produced in Romania because this is a chance for the subsidies granted through the Rabla plus Program to remain in the country, which will have a positive impact on Romania’s economy. Obviously, there are other benefits such as: reducing the carbon footprint, because we produce the cars here, we no longer transport them from thousands of kilometers, we no longer use materials that pollute the environment, we reduce the emissions of #noxes that we talk about so much and we know that they make our life hard, the air unbreathable, especially in urban agglomerations, last but not least, we maintain and create jobs, especially green jobs,” said minister Mircea Fechet.
“Through this year’s launch, we have reached the 20th edition of the Rabla Classic Program and the 9th year since we have granted funding under the Rabla Plus Program. In this way, we managed to remove more than 1 million polluting old vehicles from the roads, more than 700 thousand new cars were purchased. These figures prove that we worked hard, we worked well, and we successfully ran the longest government program in Romania,” stated the president of AFM, Laurențiu Neculaescu.
