President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said the government was looking for alternatives to launch a specific motorcycle financing program for app delivery workers. Lula said that this is the government’s next commitment in this segment, after the launch of new rules for access to the National Driving License (CNH), which can make access to the document cheaper by up to 80%.
“There is still one thing to do, which we have not yet been able to complete, one thing we want to do is to make the financing of a motorcycle cheaper so that delivery drivers have the right to have a motorcycle, preferably electric, to save greenhouse gas emissions — said Lula during the launch ceremony of the more accessible driving license at the Palácio do Planalto this Tuesday.
He indicated that the ministers and the vice-president, Geraldo Alckmin, were working on this project.
— This is our next commitment, I don’t know if it will be announced by the end of the year, but we are working on it — he said.
The search for credit to finance a motorcycle has been on Lula’s desk for at least four months. In September, Lula received at the Palácio do Planalto the Chinese billionaire Will Wei Cheng, founder and president of the Chinese company Didi, the company controlling 99.
At the time, Wang told Lula that the company was working on developing an electric motorcycle in partnership with Chinese brand Yadea to serve delivery drivers in Brazil. The Chinese automaker opened a factory in Manaus this year. The Keeness model, assembled in the country, has a price of around R$29,000.
The executive also said that 99 will offer, through partnerships, credit lines totaling 6 billion reais to motorcyclists on the platform with a view to purchasing and renting motorcycles and electric bicycles. The company already has partnerships of this type in markets such as Mexico and Colombia.
Private market movements have been closely observed by the government and taken into account in the development of public policy, which does not yet have a date to announce.
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