With a structural aging of the park, which reaches 13.5 years on average (only surpassed by Greece in Europe), and given the increase in vehicle prices, families are finding it increasingly difficult to buy a vehicle, both new and old. used.
With these increases, the alternative for many homes is to buy a used one that is more than 10 or even 15 years old, which fits their budget and mobility needs. However, this option generates a social problem, given that 50% of polluting emissions come from 15% of vehicles without a label (OCU), and result in a higher accident rate, since cars over 10 years old have the twice as likely to suffer a serious traffic accident than the least old, according to the DGT.
For this reason, renting is a more accessible alternative, since it allows greater flexibility and finding a fee that adapts to the budget of each household and its mobility needs, since this monthly rental payment is fixed, among other criteria, for annual mileage.
Sumauto, a specialist in vertical automotive portals that integrates RentingCoches.com, among others, proposes to the Government a national plan that rewards renting, in exchange for scrapping cars over 10 years old. In short, a PIR, a Renting Incentive Plan. He also proposes to equate the tax deductions of companies to individuals and provide a greater bonus depending on the motorization chosen. In other words, electrified vehicles have a greater deduction due to their low emissions. In addition, this PIR should be extended to the renting of used cars in order to benefit households with lower incomes, often located in the metropolitan area or in smaller municipalities and further from the capital.
In Spain, until now, incentive plans have been frequent, but always linked to the purchase (PIVE, etc.) and not to long-term use and rental, an upward trend, since currently individuals and self-employed represent the 52% of leasing operations. Moreover, one in four registrations in Spain is already renting.
This proposal joins that of other associations such as Aneval, which calls for a national and sustainable mobility bonus, which includes all current mobility formulas, including rent a car, in exchange for scrapping an old vehicle; that is to say, renting in its different forms is becoming an accessible and sustainable alternative.
On the other hand, Sumauto considers that renting is one of the main ways for drivers to enter electrification, in a context in which combustion cars already have an expiration date (in 2035 it will no longer be possible to sell gasoline or diesel ). And in which the Climate Change Law is about to start restricting the circulation of these cars in the central almonds.
And it is that the doubts that electromobility generates among many drivers can be cleared up with renting because the driver is not forced to buy property and knows that he has an operator behind him who is going to solve all his possible doubts and problems.
In this way, the bonus would allow to face with greater guarantees the entry of the new Low Emissions Zones (ZBE), in force from 2023, which will force restrictions to be placed in 149 Spanish cities, all of them with more than 50,000 inhabitants.
According to data from MSI for Sumauto, forecasts indicate that 3 out of 4 cars in these municipalities will be combustion engines, without any type of electrification, with the complications that this entails. A situation that is going to affect more than half of Spaniards, specifically 53% of the inhabitants or, what is the same, more than 25 million people (INE).
According to Íñigo Breña, director of RentingCoches.com, «renting is a way of salvation for many drivers. Some want to switch to sustainable mobility but within their possibilities: to be electrified but not electrocuted, that is, to be able to have an electric or hybrid car and feel that they have made the best decision for them at that moment. Being a rental, the driver will be calmer because he knows that in the future he will be able to renew it for a vehicle updated to the latest, with the advantages and comfort of the all-inclusive and without feeling that he is going to waste money on an obsolete car. ».