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October 17, 2022 01:33 PM

France increases subsidies for lower-income EV buyers

France will raise EV subsidies for lower-income households to 7,000 euros from 6,000 euros.

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     President Emmanuel Macron is pictured in the Renault 5 Turbo car at the Paris auto show ion Monday.

    PARIS -- Renault and Stellantis unveiled new French-made electric vehicles at the Paris auto show on Monday, as President Emmanuel Macron announced bigger subsidies for poorer families to buy EVs and pushed for more local production.

    In an interview with business daily Les Echos before visiting the show, Macron said EV subsidies for lower-income households would rise to 7,000 euros ($6,826) next year from 6,000 euros, while falling to 5,000 euros for other French buyers.

    He added a "social leasing" scheme helping low-income families access an EV for 100 euros per month would start in early 2024.

    Most EVs are currently more expensive than fossil-fuel equivalents and are unaffordable for many.

    "We have an industrial strategy in place for people to buy more and more French (cars)," Macron told Les Echos.

    A lack of French-made EVs is a particularly sensitive subject at an auto show on home turf where Chinese car brands have a strong presence.

    Apart from the aging Renault Zoe, the new Megane, the Kangoo van and two small SUVs made by Stellantis's Opel and DS brands, all the full-electric models sold by French automakers are assembled abroad.

    The electric versions of Stellantis' Peugeot 308 sedan and larger Peugeot 408 unveiled on Monday will be assembled in Mulhouse in eastern France.
    "We said that Stellantis was going to protect the European and particularly French automotive industry," CEO Carlos Tavares said. "It is a reality."

    Tavares said the number of models the world No. 4 automaker produces in France would soon double to 12 from 6.

    Renault's new Renault 4, based on the Renault 4ever Trophy concept, a small SUV with stylistic nods to the iconic 4L of the 1960s, will be produced at the automaker's Maubeuge plant in northern France and will go on sale in 2025.

    The Renault 4 will join the new electric Kangoo, produced in Maubeuge, and new Megane manufactured in Douai, also in northern France. The electric Scenic and Renault 5 will also go into production in Douai by 2024.

    The Renault group aims to go fully electric by 2030 and at an investor day on Nov. 8 is due to outline its strategy to create a unit focused on electrification and software, the auto industry's main focus.

    A separate unit will specialize in its legacy business making internal combustion engine cars.

    Asked about boosting subsidies for European-made EVs, as the United States has done with its recently passed Inflation Reduction Act, Macron told Les Echoes he had favored this approach for years.

    "I strongly defend a European preference," he said.

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