In industry, which employs directly or indirectly about 900 thousand people, waited impatiently for a lifeline from the state. Because of the pandemic, as stated by the French President, “the crisis of unprecedented magnitude” inflicted blow to automakers, and sales network. For March and April production fell by 80 percent, and sales fell by 90 percent, resulting in the Parking lots of car dealers has accumulated more than 400 thousand cars.
what will billions of dollars of government support? In the first place to push the industry to manufacture cleaner cars. The President has set a specific goal: to increase by 2025 production of electric and hybrid cars to one million copies. The macron made to manufacturers stringent requirement: they must commit themselves “to return to France the production of high value-added” and “to keep the amount of work in the national factories at full capacity.”
Apparently, this move was coordinated with the leadership of the local automakers. For good reason, the PSA group (Peugeot – Citroen) has announced that it will release in France every year 450 thousand cars, almost a third of which are electric cars and “hybrids”. In turn, the company Renault has said it will triple production of electric vehicles on French territory. There will be a factory of electric motors, which in zocoronline times wanted to build somewhere in Asia.
in order to revive the car sales market, macron announced a number of measures. Increase subsidies for purchasing electric cars from the current six thousand to seven thousand euros. There will be a new grant of two thousand Euro for those who decide to purchase a “hybrid”. Expanded recycling program “of Autostore”. Thus, according to Macron, an updated version of recycling will now be available for “three quarters” of French citizens.
