As of: February 12, 2024, 1:05 p.m
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France is making headlines again with a transport offensive: for low-income households, the cost of a leased electric car will be limited to 100 euros per month.
Paris - More than 50,000 French people will be able to lease an electric car for 100 euros a month this year: The French subsidy program for low-income commuters has already reached more than twice as many people as originally planned, as the Elysée reported on Monday (February 12th). ) announced.
The program will therefore be discontinued for the current year and resumed next year.
Leasing at a ridiculous price - but only for European electric cars
“With this first wave we are exceeding our targets,” said an adviser to President Emmanuel Macron.
The leasing cars are reserved for people with low incomes who travel more than 8,000 kilometers a year or live more than 15 kilometers from their place of work.
With the program, Macron fulfilled one of his election promises.
With this offer, city cars can be leased for 100 euros per month, family cars for 150 euros, excluding insurance and maintenance.
The contract runs for three years and can be extended once.
The state finances each leasing with around 13,000 euros.
Only cars manufactured in Europe come into question; in fact, most of them are produced by the Stellantis Group, which includes the brands Citroën, Fiat, Opel and Peugeot.
“In order to reduce our CO₂ emissions, we have to replace combustion cars with electric cars,” Macron emphasized when presenting the project.
Paris is taking action against environmentally harmful SUVs
This is the second time in a week that France has made headlines with an offensive to reduce CO₂ emissions in the transport sector.
At the beginning of February, citizens of the capital Paris voted to triple parking prices for large off-road vehicles (SUVs).
Just one hour of parking in the center should cost 18 euros instead of the usual six euros, and in the outskirts 12 euros instead of four euros.
It wasn't just about the environmental impact of these popular cars, but also about the space that SUVs take up in metropolises like Paris.
In France, consumers were able to sign up for a subsidized leasing car.
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The SUVs have also come under international criticism from environmentalists.
Greenpeace recently criticized the fact that the world's three largest automobile manufacturers were directly undoing their progress in climate protection through e-mobility by selling climate-damaging SUV cars.
According to the environmental organization, SUVs emit around twelve percent more carbon dioxide than smaller cars and, because of their size, require more drive energy and more raw materials in production.
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