The Government set a sales target of two-thirds of electric cars by 2030 during the presentation of the National Low Carbon Strategy (SNBC) by the Ministry of Ecological Transition this Monday, November 4. An intermediate step before the end of sales of new thermal cars, including hybrids, scheduled for 2035 in the countries of the European Union.
Only 17% of sales in 2024
Since the beginning of the year, from January to October 2024, electric car sales have represented 17% of the total in France, compared to 16% in the same period last year.
During this presentation, the government also announced the goal of having 15% electric cars in the country’s fleet by the end of the decade, up from 2.2% at the beginning of 2024.
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“Transportation represents 32% of greenhouse gas emissions. Therefore, it constitutes a third of the problem, but also a third of the solution,” explains François Durovray, Minister responsible for Transport, in the presentation of this SNBC.
The minister divides his action into three main themes: “develop, to reduce the need to travel”, “massify, to transport more people and goods with fewer individual cars” and, finally, “green the engines, in particular through electrification, to reduce the carbon footprint of each trip.
Biofuels and hydrogen
Among the aforementioned ways to “decarbonize” transport and, in particular, automobiles, the Government also plans to “increase the use of biofuels by 40% between now and 2030 compared to 2019.”
From an equivalent of 38.5 TWh of biofuels consumed in 2022, the objective is to reach between 50 and 55 TWh in 2030. But this total includes all uses of biofuels, in land transport but also in air and sea, at the level metropolitan.
In terms of hydrogen production, which remains one of the alternatives to battery electric vehicles, the installed electrolysis capacity (and therefore the production of carbon-free hydrogen) must increase from 0 GW in 2022 to 6.5 GW in 2030.
Enough to allow both “decarbonizing existing uses” and also “satisfying new needs for decarbonized hydrogen by prioritizing uses, both industrial and mobility,” reads this French strategy for energy and climate.
Source: BFM TV
