Parliament adopts the reuse of cars destined for scrapping to rent them to the poorest at a reduced price

Local authorities will be able to recover vehicles intended for scrapping, as part of the conversion bonus, to rent them at a lower cost.

A “measure of general interest” for the most modest and for the environment. Parliament definitively adopted, on Wednesday March 27, an environmentalist bill which makes it possible to recover low-polluting cars, which should be sent to the scrapyard as part of the conversion bonus, to rent them at a lower cost to the most precarious. .

The text provides that local authorities, through the mobility organizing authorities (AOM), can recover certain vehicles eligible for the conversion bonus – a system which allows individuals, in exchange for the scrapping of an old vehicle, to obtain assistance to acquire a low-polluting vehicle. These vehicles which have escaped the scrapyard can then be rented at low prices to people “socially disadvantaged”.

Avoid the scrapping of “low-polluting” vehicles

This concerns gasoline cars classified “Crit’Air 3” or better classified, which can be reused through “recognized associations of public utility or general interest” like solidarity garages. “The economic model of solidarity garages has been largely weakened by the implementation of the conversion bonus”argued the rapporteur of the text, the ecologist Marie Pochon, highlighting the sending “each year thousands of vehicles are scrapped, sometimes low polluting, sometimes without much mileage and usable”.

These vehicles “constituted the bulk of donations to solidarity garages which guaranteed mobility to those who otherwise give it up”, she added. The possibility of reusing them, via these garages, particularly in rural and isolated areas, is a “measure of general interest”, she pleaded. The Minister for Transport, Patrice Vergriete, supported the text, judging that it was necessary “ensure the social support which is essential to success” of the ecological transition, taking into account “the particular needs and constraints of the most modest French people”.