This rental with purchase option, launched by the government at the beginning of 2024, allowed more than 50,000 households to access an electric car for around 100 euros per month. Victim of its success, it was suspended at the beginning of 2024.
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The social leasing system for electric cars will be renewed in 2025, Minister for Transport François Durovray announced on Friday October 11. “It is a system that will be maintained, the contours are currently being discussed. It must aim at the right targets,” specified the minister, who was speaking on the sidelines of the centenary festival of the Linas-Montlhéry autodrome (Essonne).
This rental with purchase option, launched by the government at the beginning of 2024, allowed more than 50,000 households to access an electric car for around 100 euros per month. This measure boosted sales of electric vehicles in France, before being suspended after a few weeks, a victim of its success. The Elysée then promised that this system would be renewed at the beginning of 2025.
In the new budget presented Thursday by the government for 2025, the envelope allocated to bonuses for the purchase of vehicles, including social leasing, will however be reduced, going from 1.5 to one billion euros. If the details of the schemes have not been published, they will finance “giving priority to the most modest households.explained the government.
François Durovray reaffirmed Friday that “the decarbonization of transport” featured “at the top of the issues” of his ministry. For the minister, the latest sales figures for electric cars are “very good”with 25% market share in sales to individuals in France in September. Fleets represent half of new vehicle sales and are supposed to fuel the second-hand market. But few of the largest companies are still meeting their obligation to purchase 10% of low-emission vehicles.