‘Health’ and ‘Environment’ Projects ... Busan City Supports Conversion of Children's School Vehicles to LPG Cars

Busan City Hall.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Hwang Du-yeol] Busan City is promoting the "Children's School Vehicle LPG Vehicle Conversion Support Project" for 215 vehicles this year to protect children's health and improve air quality.

The support targets owners of children's school vehicles who scrap old diesel vehicles and purchase new medium-sized passenger or van LPG vehicles for children's school transportation.

The project provides 7 million KRW per vehicle, with a total project budget of 1.505 billion KRW this year.

The city has temporarily extended the scrapping condition by one year to allow applications for new LPG vehicle purchases without scrapping existing diesel vehicles currently in operation.

The project can also be combined with early scrapping subsidy support projects.

If a Grade 5 emission diesel vehicle is scrapped and a new LPG vehicle for children's school transportation is purchased, both the LPG new vehicle subsidy and the early scrapping subsidy can be received.

From this year, the retroactive application period has been extended to allow support applications for vehicles scrapped, new vehicle contracts, or purchase registrations made after December last year.

The priority for support is ▲ first priority for those scrapping existing diesel vehicles ▲ second priority for those purchasing new vehicles without scrapping.

The city plans to select recipients around the 7th of next month after batch applications are received and prioritized.

Applications can be submitted for 20 days from the 7th to the 27th via the Ministry of Environment's vehicle emission grade system website or by registered mail.

To prevent COVID-19 infection, in-person applications are not accepted, and if applications are insufficient, additional applications will be accepted until the budget is exhausted.

Application methods can be confirmed on the Busan City website's public notice, and for further details, inquiries can be made to the Busan City call center or the Emission Reduction Team of the Climate and Air Quality Division.

Park Hyung-jun, Mayor of Busan, said, "This LPG new vehicle conversion support project for old diesel vehicles is expected to protect children's health and contribute to improving air quality by reducing fine dust."

Busan City supported the conversion of a total of 283 children's school vehicles to LPG vehicles over three years from 2018 to 2020.

Last year, with a budget of 1.785 billion KRW for one year, support was provided for the conversion of 255 vehicles, achieving 90% of the three-year performance.

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