Madrid will ban more than 400,000 cars in January: fines of 200 euros from the first day

Bad news (again) if you have a car without an ecological label and live in Madrid. In just three months, he ultimately circulated along the streets of the capital, and if you do this, you will automatically receive a fine of 200 euros. All cars with label A (and expansion, without tags) will be prohibited Entrance to ZBE from December 31.

And although he was supposed to enter into force in January last year, the truth is that the city council launched an extension that was going to finish, that This will leave more than 400,000 cars enrolled in Madrid from the capital in the capital A few hundred thousand throughout Spain.

This measure affects the oldest cars of the mobile park of the capital and, in particular, for gasoline until 2000 and diesel until 2006, which from January 2026 may no longer spread through the ZBE of the capital. And the truth is that this time there is no period of grace: Automatic cameras distributed throughout the city will begin to sit with fines of 200 euros From the first day, which will mean a huge problem for hundreds of thousands of drivers who will not have time to look for an alternative to their labels without labels.

200 euro penalty from January 1 in ZBE

And from these fines, what was precisely the moratorium: if the cars were registered (as their owner and the transport car itself) and paid the municipal tax in Madrid, they could circulate without being fined during 2025,On the date set for its end on the last day of the year, inclusive.

However, with the final tuning of the moratorium, all vehicles without a mark will not be able to circulate, and if they do it, they will face healing. And this also applies to the inhabitants of Madrid, who may not apply to ZBE from January 1 if they do not have an ecological label.

Since it remains a little more than three months to enter into a ban, users These types of cars will have to look for an alternativeAnd do it urgently, something, which, of course, quickly or cheaply.

As of January 1, the only cars that can spread through ZBE will be a car with labels C, Echo or Zero.