Municipal sustainable mobility loan (267)
A direct loan covering up to 100% of eligible costs for municipalities investing in climate-friendly vehicles, walking and cycling routes, transport infrastructure or digital mobility in Germany.
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IKK – Nachhaltige Mobilität finances municipal transport investments, including walking and cycling routes, eligible low-emission vehicles and non-public electric charging or hydrogen refuelling facilities. Programme 267 is the direct municipal route; company investments, including those of municipal companies, use the separate 268/269 programmes.
You can borrow up to €150 million per applicant per year, covering up to all eligible costs. KfW also limits each borrower's total outstanding and committed direct loans: €1,000 per resident for towns and municipalities, or €300 per resident for municipal associations and districts, with a ceiling of at least €10 million for either group. This is not a minimum loan amount.
You repay the loan with interest. Terms range from four to 30 years; depending on the chosen term, up to five initial years require interest payments only. Afterwards, repay equal quarterly amounts of principal plus interest on the remaining debt. Early repayment carries a compensation charge.
Choose irrevocably in the application whether the interest rate will be set at approval or when drawing the money. Rates change each banking day. Fixing the rate at approval brings a 0.15% monthly fee on undrawn money starting six months and two banking days after approval. For special-purpose municipal associations, the initial fixed-rate period is limited to ten years. Choosing a 20-year fixed rate excludes the borrower's early termination right under section 489(1)(2) of the German Civil Code.
Eligibility
- German municipal authorities, municipal associations and their legally dependent municipal operations can apply. Special-purpose municipal associations (Zweckverbände) must be treated like municipal authorities and qualify for a zero risk weight under Articles 115(2) and 114(2) of the EU Capital Requirements Regulation. This is the bank's regulatory classification of lending to the association, not a statement that its project is risk-free. Their activities must be non-economic under EU state-aid law or fall outside state aid for other reasons. KfW checks this individually.
- Infrastructure and vehicle investments must exclusively serve the municipality's own needs. Electric charging infrastructure and hydrogen refuelling stations must be non-public. Cars and light passenger vehicles must have zero CO₂ exhaust emissions; other categories have their own technical limits and exceptions. Check the programme's technical annex for the relevant vehicle. Walking and cycling infrastructure must meet current technical standards and normally be separated from other traffic.
- Economic activities that conflict with EU state-aid rules are excluded. A specific exception allows services of general economic interest (DAWI): economic services with public-service obligations, where the market does not provide the same service on equivalent terms. This route requires compliance with the DAWI exemption decision, reporting and a self-declaration. The public authority must formally entrust the service provider with defined duties and duration, and set compensation calculation and control rules, including prevention and recovery of excess compensation. The municipal applicant can use the funds to contribute ownership capital to the formally entrusted company so that it can finance investments. The municipality remains the KfW borrower; this is not a direct company application under 268/269. Such compensation is limited to costs remaining after relevant income during the entrusted period. Investment-related fees must not cover all those costs, and an auditor must confirm the calculation.
- Data-driven mobility systems must save more transport emissions than they cause, without increasing private motor traffic or disadvantaging walking, cycling or public transport. Infrastructure should avoid additional land sealing and displacement of walking, cycling or public-transport infrastructure; an exception requires careful assessment showing that environmental benefits outweigh harm.
- Short-term cash loans and refinancing completed, fully financed projects are excluded. Light goods vehicles intended exclusively for fossil-fuel transport are excluded. For freight trains, heavy goods vehicles and freight vessels, the exclusion covers vehicles intended for fossil-fuel transport and work on them. Infrastructure for transporting or storing fossil fuels is also excluded.
- The project must meet German environmental and social requirements, KfW's exclusion list and its oil-and-gas sector guideline. When combining public loans, grants or allowances, total support must not exceed eligible costs.
How to apply
- Κατάσταση
- Ανοιχτό συνεχώς
- Περιορισμοί γύρου
- KfW approval is discretionary and subject to available funds.
Create your application document in KfW's KODA web application. Also create the project confirmation (Bestätigung zum Antrag) in the BzA centre. Submit the signed and officially sealed documents with the required supporting papers directly to KfW, by email to Kommune@kfw.de or post to KfW Niederlassung Berlin, 10865 Berlin. The DAWI route requires a separate application and self-declaration form 600 000 5183.
For construction spanning several years, submit a new loan application for each budget year's work. Funding is discretionary and subject to available funds.
After completion, send KfW the signed and sealed proof of use, no later than 24 months after full disbursement. Confirm compliance with the programme's technical requirements.