Vagueness still reigns over the new version of the ecological bonus. The decree continues to be planned “in the coming days,” a Government spokesperson indicated this Thursday, November 28, with application the day after its publication. This represents a severe blow, and therefore a priori imminent, to the main aid for the purchase of a new electric car in France.
A sharp decrease in quantities is confirmed
The amount of the subsidy depends on the tax ratio of each household. They may receive 4,000 euros up to 16,300 euros per share (deciles 1 to 5), 3,000 euros up to 26,200 euros per share (deciles 6 to 8), and 2,000 euros above 26,200 euros per share (deciles 9 and 10). , that is, the majority of electric car buyers.
In 2024, individuals could benefit from aid of at least 4,000 euros (without income conditions) and up to 7,000 euros in ecological bonus.
A “strictly limited” envelope
The Government specified this Thursday that the allocation dedicated to this ecological bond would be “strictly limited” to 700 million euros by 2025. What will happen once that amount is reached? Subsidies that could be reduced further, or even suspended.
“The Government wishes to guarantee strict compliance with the assigned budget allocation,” in a “difficult budgetary context” and after having noted excesses in recent years, the Ministry of Industry stated during a press conference.
Although it still needs to be validated by Parliament, the amount allocated in the 2025 budget to purchase aid is 700 million euros, of which around ten million are allocated to used electric vehicles and their modernization.
A priori aid preserved for public services
The conversion bonus system will be eliminated. On the other hand, the Government intends to maintain aid for light electric utility vehicles, a subsidy that seemed threatened in recent days.
However, the amount of aid for these professional vehicles is not yet known. It will be financed through energy savings certificates (CEE), which do not depend on the treasury bill.
This will also be the case of the social lease, which will be renewed in the second half of the year, with this financing through energy savings certificates.
Social rent significantly reduced?
If the Government is pleased with the “success achieved” by social leasing, its cost remains impressive: 650 million euros for 50,000 files and subsidized electric cars, with a remainder to be paid by the beneficiaries that could reach 50 euros per month.
But, for the new system, the government only mentions 300 million euros for this social lease, but also for public services. Enough to maintain the promise of support of one billion euros until 2025, combining this endowment with that of the ecological bonus, compared to 1.5 billion this year. But these measures will necessarily be much less generous.
The allocation of 700 million euros for the ecological bond should make it possible to finance some 200,000 100% electric cars, the government predicts. During the first ten months of 2024, nearly 240,000 zero-emission models were sold in France.
Source: BFM TV
