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France says ‘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] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

True, but that don't seems to be a bad idea after all: it make the car less expensive when you buy it so maybe more people could afford one and currently for that montly price you will not even do one full tank of fuel here.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

It is a good idea. I just don't like being forced to rent it. I want to buy a car so that it is mine, but the French don't offer that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

A possibility is that this way the manufacturer is sure to get the batter yback at any time, which means that probably once it the battery is under a certain max charge capacity. As far as I remember, Renault is/was doing something like this with the Zoe batteries: once they are no more good to be used for a car, they were refitted for home usage with solar panels.

But I get your point.