Support for early scrapping of vehicles with grade 5 emissions ends this year... Jeonbuk-do “actively participates”

(Jeonju = Yonhap News) Reporter Lim Chae-du = Jeonbuk Special Self-Governing Province said on the 8th, “Support for early scrapping and installation of smoke reduction devices (DPF) for vehicles with grade 5 emissions ends this year,” and urged owners of such vehicles to actively participate.

According to the province, those eligible to benefit from the government's emission reduction project are class 5 vehicles and class 4 diesel vehicles, as well as old construction machinery that meets certain standards and must meet support requirements such as vehicle ownership period, registration area, and normal operation.

Among class 5 vehicles, the subsidy is up to 3 million won for cars weighing less than 3.5 tons, and up to 30 million won for cars weighing 3.5 tons or more. For class 4 diesel vehicles, the subsidy is up to 8 million won and 78 million won, respectively.

In accordance with government policy, support for early scrapping of class 5 vehicles and installation of exhaust emission reduction devices is scheduled to end this year.

As of last month, the province supported 4,559 vehicles, including 4,234 prematurely scrapped vehicles, 61 with exhaust emission reduction devices, and 207 construction machinery engine replacements.

In addition, even after the end of support, we plan to continue the policy of reducing old diesel vehicles and old construction machinery, while also expanding the transition to zero-emission vehicles such as electric vehicles and hydrogen vehicles to reduce air pollutant emissions.

Lee Soon-taek, director of the Provincial Environment and Forestry Bureau, said, “As this is the last year of the support project, we hope that owners of eligible vehicles will actively participate.”