The increasingly restrictive taxation for long-haul cars and SUVs, the purchase bonuses granted to electrified vehicles and the accentuated tendency to “car-bashing” are driving car purchases.
The Argus
, which has been scrutinizing the evolution of the automobile market since 1953 to draw a composite portrait of the typical French car, notes that the year 2020 marked by the health crisis has seen a strengthening of the movement initiated in 2018.
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Resulting from the compilation of registration data over one year, the study of our colleagues shows that the French market is dominated by versatile city cars, such as Citroën C3, Peugeot 208 and Renault Clio, and urban SUVs such as the Citroën C3 Aircross , the Peugeot 2008 and the Renault Captur. The minivan is no longer successful. Its sales were halved in the space of a year. A brake on purchasing, the ecological penalty directs many households to the purchase of second-hand vehicles. This is not good news because this trend, which is increasing, reflects the pauperization of society.
This is how the new car that the French bought in 2020 has seen all of its characteristics downgraded. Its displacement has lost 12 cm3, its consumption has been reduced by 0.2 l / 100 km, its CO2 emissions by 8 g / km. It shortened another 20 mm in length and dropped 7 kilos on the scale. Its top speed fell by 4 km / h. The price also drops from 292 euros to 26,789 euros on average. Under the weight of the European Commission which announced on July 14, as part of the Climate Law, a 55% drop in CO2 emissions in 2030 and the end of the marketing of vehicles with combustion engines (including hybrid vehicles) from 2035, the market should continue to evolve. It remains that to convert a large part of the park to electric,it will be necessary to both increase the used vehicle fleet and reduce the price of new zero-emission vehicles.
