1,000 hybrid or electric vehicles are sold every day in June. - AFP

After a 72% drop in registrations in March and 89% in April due to containment, then a jolt in May, car sales started to rise again in June. And the French have set their sights on hybrid cars. Over the first ten days of June, registrations of vehicles of this type increased by 89% compared to the same period a year ago, according to data collected by Europe 1. This represents 1,000 sales per day. A record.

Now, hybrid vehicles represent 15% of the new market. Adding to it the share of 100% electric cars, the proportion of “electrified” vehicles is growing, passing to one in five cars according to figures collected by AAA, Data specialist in data for the automotive sector.

Attractive premiums

"The market share of electric and hybrid vehicles in 2020 is significantly higher than what has never been observed in previous years," Marie-Laure Nivot, market intelligence manager at AAA Data, told Europe 1. "These growths are all the more remarkable when one comes out of a health crisis," adds the manager.

Government aid for the purchase of a clean vehicle, in particular the enlarged conversion premium and ecological bonuses, is not unrelated to this French craze for electric vehicles. Vehicles become more affordable

By combining the bonus with the 7,000 euros bonus and the conversion bonus of 5,000 euros, the new Renault Zoe, for example, drops below 20,000 euros.

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