France says ‘non’ to EVs made in China
France says ‘non’ to EVs made in China
Today, France has revealed its list of electric vehicles now eligible for federal tax incentives of up to €7,000. EVs made in China – including Tesla’s Model 3 and the Dacia Spring, the cheapest EV on the market – didn't make the cut.
French president Emmanuel Macron already unveiled new incentives to sway buyers away from Chinese models toward French and European ones, including a new €100 per month leasing scheme for EU-made electric cars, with those details announced today. The French government also announced a big rollout of cash incentives for first-time EV buyers, as long as they bought cars made in the EU.
And where will the parts of the European cars be sourced from?
France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Czechia.
Its interesting to watch how the different approaches Turn Out. Germany just now massivly cut back in EV incentives. Its huge Car corporations are already struggling in the EV Market and especially in China.
With french Companies offering a Car in the 20k€ range, German manufacturers fall even further behind.
Meanwhile Germany still bets in selling traditional Cars in the shrinking Chinese Market..
With french Companies offering a Car in the 20k€ range
With a battery rental in the order of 80 € per month on top. It's easy to offer a cheap car if the most expensive component isn't sold along with it.
Germany has cut back in EV sales insetives, but not in subsidies for building up factories. Right now half of the battery factories being planned in the EU are planned in Germany, with German car makers being a massive driver of it. Volkswagen sells twice as many EVs as Stellantis and BMW is only a bit behind Stellantis. As for German car makers in China, they are all starting to wall of that site of the business from the rest of the company. So they can sell it quickly or are at least in a better position to cut it off when sanctions start.
100€ a month for ppl that can afford to buy an ev while most ppl drive a 20 year old car that is falling apart bc ppl can't afford a new one seems like is not really helping the people thay need help
So I wasn't sure which one of us misunderstood so I went to read on the French page, and it is indeed a scheme where people with low income can lease the car for 100€ per month, as in that's what they'll have to pay per month, rather than a discount on the price of a normal lease.
Given that who is driving a 20 year old car (but car's age does not really matter) now spend much more than 100 € a month for the fuel, it does not seems to be that expensive.
And anyway 20k € for a car are not that much these days if you want to buy a brand new car. I get that many people could not even afford that much, but it is not that nowadays an used car is much less expensive, if you want a decent one.
cool, national politics always going 110% because dimwits just get super wet from it, meanwhile all countries' car manufacturers are spiraling into an unsolvable repairability nightmare. i literally don't care if I'm going to drive french or Chinese e-waste. i hope i didn't care that others of my species had brain rot but we see here that it still gets to me. 😔