what future for the ecological bonus-malus?

While Michel Barnier presents his finance bill at the end of the day in the Council of Ministers, the government is preparing not only to reduce the ecological bonus envelope for the purchase of electric cars, but also to toughen the penalty. applying to models deemed to be the most polluting. According to information from franceinfo, these measures appear in the finance bill.

The ceiling letter sent in August by Gabriel Attal, then resigned Prime Minister, to the Ministry of Ecological Transition already planned to reduce to 1 billion euros in 2025 the amount of aid for the purchase of an electric car, bonus, bonus to conversion and social leasing. And this instead of 1.5 billion euros planned in this year’s budget.

But according to our information, the brakes will be even more brutal, with only 800 million euros in aid to be distributed among existing aid in 2025. Knowing that leasing, Emmanuel Macron’s campaign promise, cost him alone about 650 million this year.

The government also intends to tighten the penalty rules on cars deemed to be the most polluting, by lowering the CO2 emissions and weight thresholds to be subject to them. These new measures will therefore affect the vast majority of non-electric models currently sold within three years, according to the professional organization Mobilians. The operation would allow the State to collect 2.2 billion euros in revenue in 2025, or three times more than this year.