Against the background of fuel shortages, the President of the Republic fully assumes the turn taken by Europe in favor of the electric car. It announces an increase in the ecological bonus for half of the most modest French households.
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While the France of the car lines up in the service stations, Emmanuel Macron was to go on Monday, October 17, to the Motor Show, which returns to Paris, after four years of absence. The goal: to assume the European turn towards the all-electric, acted under the French presidency of the European Union, in the first half.
In June, the Strasbourg Parliament voted for the end of the sale of petrol or diesel cars after 2035. Since then, car manufacturers have faced a paradox. They must be enthusiastic about this revolution and convince their customers to switch to electric cars, which nevertheless give them a lot of hard -making thread.
Indeed, they are more expensive to build – to the point of no longer being accessible to the greatest number – and pose an access to rare raw materials (lithium, cobalt) and expensive, whose China has locked supply or treatment. Above all, they question a whole sector of suppliers and subcontractors essential for the French economic and social fabric. “The automobile is 45 % of French industry, 7 billion euros in research and development spending and 800,000 direct jobs. It is strategic,” said the Elysée, who promises to continue to support the sector.
Before the show, Sunday, October 16, the President of the Republic received the main players in the sector to remind them of the objective he set for them: producing, in 2030, 2 million electric vehicles in France. In a Echos interview , it recalls that automotive production reached 4 million vehicles twenty years ago, 2 million in 2009, before Fall between 1.3 million and 1.5 million today.
Encourage demand
“The transition to electricity is therefore not the cause of current difficulties. It is on the contrary the opportunity to revive a sector on new objectives”, asserts the head of state. After having discussed with the manufacturers, he believes that, as early as 2027, France will be able to produce one million electric vehicles. He recalled that, in the France 2030 plan, “nearly 5 billion [would benefit] at the automobile”. “A billion is argued towards subcontractors to help them diversify and change structures, because many of them are undercapitalized and do not have critical size.”
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