Apply for funding for environmentally friendly, low-emission public transport - buses and community buses

The following are eligible to apply for public bus funding:

• Local transport companies that operate scheduled services in accordance with § 42 or § 43 sentence 1 no. 2 or § 44 of the Passenger Transport Act (PBefG) in Baden-Württemberg.
• Local transport companies that are in possession of a corresponding regular service licence and procure vehicles eligible for funding under these guidelines that are used in regular services in accordance with § 42 or § 43 sentence 1 number 2 or § 44 PBefG in Baden-Württemberg.
• Contractors of such transport companies

The following are eligible to apply for citizen bus funding:

• (Citizens' bus) associations, transport companies, municipalities or districts

Amount and scope of funding:

Funding is differentiated according to the type of drive

• emission-free vehicles: battery buses, fuel cell buses
• clean vehicles: plug-in hybrid buses
• other drive types
• The conversion of vehicles that allow them to be categorised as vehicles with battery-electric or fuel cell drives is also eligible for funding.

Emission-free and clean vehicles

• Funding for additional investment costs related to environmental protection: The additional investment costs related to environmental protection are determined by comparing the procurement costs with the costs of a conventional reference bus of the same size. The difference between the expenditure of these two investments is the environmental protection-related and therefore eligible expenditure.

• The subsidy rate for eligible expenditure depends on the size of the company
  • Medium and large companies: 70 %
  • Small companies: 75 %.
  • In order to support the fastest possible conversion of vehicles used in Baden-Württemberg to low-emission drive systems, the aid intensity will be reduced by 5 percentage points per year starting from the funding year 2025.
• For reasons of state aid law, applications for zero-emission and clean vehicles must be prioritised in order to enable effective competition.
  • The criterion of the submitted offer (aid applied for divided by the number of vehicle units) is awarded 75%,
  • the rural area criterion (location of the vehicle) with 15 % ,
  • the small company criterion is weighted at 10%.

No distinction is made in the ranking between the procurement and conversion of vehicles; instead, a standardised ranking procedure is used. The worst 5% of applications based on the application ranking for zero-emission and clean vehicles cannot be included in the programme.

Vehicles with other drive types

• 40.eUR 000 per vehicle unit.
• Additional and special equipment is subsidised in the form of fixed lump sums.

Further information can be found in the guidelines and in the application form