French EV retrofit scheme

adunis

https://transition-one.fr/

What are the odds this will ever happen here ?
I'm going with the burecrats/insurance companies/vested interests will never go for it.

Comments?

innrain

Sounds like a good idea.
I don't see any technical details. I see it costs about 10k (the state aid is about 5k) so you pay 5k for a small car. I don't see the range and if the cost includes re-certification. I imagine that for a second car in the family might sound good. What about insurance. Yeah it won't happen. By the time it gets here will have decent SH market

unkel

That price of 10k is only for the very small city cars ( les voitures citadines) getting a range of 100km. I'd say they'll get just a 15kWh or so battery. Note it is only for a handful of pre-configured cars that they obviously have developed cheap conversion kits for

That said, 10k is a really good price (but still lots of money) to convert a car to EV and if the tax payer pays half of that, you have a very cheap conversion that will pay for itself within a few years and is better for the planet

slave1

Better off with an interest free loan from the Gov than something like this, Scotland still do it AFAIK, interest free loan to buy an EV

unkel

I agree in so far that I am generally not a fan of retrofitting anything, particularly not if a lot of the cost are covered by the tax payer. This is generally inefficient use of tax payers money. Like a deep retrofit of an old house where most of the money is spent on labour

A better solution would be if there were cheap EV city cars available to buy brand new for very little money (after incentives)