Once the Korean government restricts the number of electric car subsidies to 20,000 this year, and the number of electric cars sold by automobile companies exceeds 20,000, it is impossible for consumers to buy subsidies Etc. It is expected to owe confusion. Consumers will not be able to buy real vehicles because they cannot receive subsidies even if they wait a few months with a pre-payment of KRW 100,000.

According to the industry on February 1, GM Korea is not able to match the car delivery and delivery date with the schedule that consumers want in advance under the preliminary contract of `Bolt EV` of electric car. In addition to the information that the Volt EV limited quantity is sold this year, .

This is due to the unexpected demand for pre-order sales of Volt EV. GM Korea, which had pre-contracted with Volt EV in mid-month, sold all of its 5000 units from its head office this year in three hours. An official of the company said, "We closed the pre-contract for 700 units, which was introduced in the first half of last month," he said. Apart from the 5000 units introduced, the company estimated the demand for air to be around 1,500 units.

Meanwhile, Hyundai Motor also contracted 12,000 vehicles in five days after pre-ordering the electric car of Kona, a small sports utility car, on November 15. Ioniq Electric, a previously released electric car, is said to have reserved thousands of units.

The e-commerce ticketing monster, on the other hand, also made a reservation sale of a miniature electric car manufactured by Daechang Motors online, but the number of outlets (100 units) in March was only half day after the start of the transaction. We immediately added 200 units to unexpected demand, but all of them were sold out. Currently, there are 300 sales for the second sale in April more than half have already been pre-contracted.

Electric vehicles that have been pre-booked by domestic automakers already exceeded 20,000 units, which the Ministry of Environment decided to subsidize this year. This year`s government subsidy budget is 240 billion won, and it will pay up to KRW 12 million according to the distance of one charge.

However, some consumers may not be able to receive the vehicle even though they pay the down payment as the number of subsidies is limited. Some say it is better for the government to make the subsidy policy more conservative. Lee Ho-keun, a professor at Daedeok University, said, "Although the subsidy for electric cars this year has decreased by KRW 2 million, the demand has been exploding." Even if the Ministry of Environment reduced subsidies, it is exceeding the target of 20,000 units.

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