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France says β€˜non’ to EVs made in China (electrek.co)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

oy that's nice then

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

this is borderline communist for Macron. What happened to him?

[–] bitflag 7 points 11 months ago

He was always like this and has been distributing public money left and right. France's public spending and taxation as a share of GDP are at all time highs.

It's just the French left thinks everybody to their right is a spawn of Reagan and Thatcher.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

It's so nationalistic and anti China that it came full circle.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

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.