Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- Uzbekistan plans to approve measures to support the organization of production and operation of electric vehicles. 

The Ministry of Economic Development and Poverty Reduction of the Republic of Uzbekistan has developed and published a draft presidential resolution on measures to support the organization of production and operation of electric vehicles.

The document is aimed at accelerating the process of transition to a green economy and stimulating demand for electric vehicles in Uzbekistan.

The draft resolution includes a strategy and program for the development of the production of electric vehicles in Uzbekistan until 2030, as well as a roadmap for organizing the production of electric vehicles, their components and spare parts.

In the draft resolution of the President, Uzbekistan plans to increase the share of electric vehicles in the total volume of the local car market to 15% by 2030. To do this, it is planned to create a full cycle for the production of electric vehicles and components based on available natural resources - lithium, graphite and copper.

Ministries, departments, budgetary organizations, local governments and enterprises with a state share of more than 50% in the authorized capital will gradually replace at least 10% of the fleet of official vehicles with electric vehicles by 2025 and 100% by 2030. At the same time, from 2022, at least 20 percent of the cars purchased by these organizations must be electric vehicles.

To stimulate the purchase and use of electric vehicles and electric buses (categories M1, M2, M3, N1, N2, N3) until May 2030, it is proposed:

exempt from land tax areas with charging stations for at least two electric vehicles and parking spaces around each of them;

when calculating income tax, deduct the expenses of companies for the creation of charging stations;

exempt from customs duties (except customs fees) imported charging stations, their components and technological equipment of the service infrastructure.

The document proposes to exempt citizens and companies until 2027 from paying a recycling fee when importing electric vehicles with a manufacturing date of no more than a year and registering in the “release for free circulation” customs regime.

Uzbekistan also plans to create a Green Economy Development Fund, where it is proposed to enroll:

0.2% of the cost of new vehicles with internal combustion engines (with the exception of hybrid cars) upon their state registration by the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and 0.5% of their cost upon re-registration;

2 basic estimated value (540 thousand soums) for the possession of a vehicle with internal combustion engines with a volume of 2 liters or more, paid during technical inspection;

special surcharge - 15 soums for each liter when selling gasoline and diesel fuel in a retail network and 100 soums for each cubic meter at points of sale of liquefied and compressed gas, etc.

The program for the development of the production of electric vehicles envisages the creation by 2030 of 1600 stations for charging electric vehicles. In particular, 1,510 Mode 3 and Mode 4 stations will be installed in the settlements of Uzbekistan and 90 EQS Mode 4 type stations on all major highways with a distance of 50-70 km between the two nearest stations.