Cars on the road, not in the scrapyard, this is how we could summarize the text presented on September 11 in the Senate and discovered by the magazine Capital. A bill “aimed at promoting the reuse of vehicles, at the service of sustainable and inclusive mobility in the territories”, supported by the environmental group.
Select the “suitable” vehicles destined for scrapping
The idea? Identify vehicles that are still operational, but destined for scrapping as part of the conversion bonus, to offer them at moderate rentals to low-income households.
The vehicles would meet criteria “in terms of pollution and defined operating status, following advice from the Environment and Energy Management Agency (Ademe),” the bill reads.
In 2023, the “old vehicles” that will be eligible for the conversion bonus are diesel vehicles registered before January 1, 2011 and gasoline vehicles before 2006.
Vehicles, in the best of cases, Crit’Air 3, which will soon be prohibited from circulating in certain EPZs. In Paris, this must now apply from 2025, two and a half years after the initially planned date. Despite this context, these vehicles may still be interesting for people who are not required to drive in large cities or who could benefit from exemptions.
Another option mentioned in the bill: modernize these vehicles, that is, replace their thermal engine with an electrical system to give them a second life and go from a highly polluting car to a “zero emissions” one.
Affordable daily rental
In this way, eligible vehicles could be transferred free of charge and across the regions to associative workshops “to develop solidarity mobility services.”
This system would thus achieve a double objective: social, “giving temporary access to the individual car, which is often the only means of getting around”, but also ecological, “prolonging the useful life of these cars instead of systematically avoiding eliminating them”, underlines the environmentalist senator of Isère Guillaume Gontard to Capitalwhich offers some examples of rentals offered by solidarity garages.
In fact, the one in Romans-sur-Isère, in Drôme, offers rentals to people subject to conditions of means and registered in a labor reintegration process. With an offer that ranges from electric bicycles to cars and scooters, from 2.50 euros to 7 euros per day and up to 3 months.
For the hypothesis of cars converted to 100% electric, this solution could also be part of the future “social leasing” at 100 euros per month: this system promised by the government and for which the first pre-reservations must open in November.
Source: BFM TV
