While the European Commission is soon to propose new regulations to reduce CO2 emissions from new vehicles to zero, the players in the automotive sector are asking the government for help to finance their ecological transition and the switch to the electric motor.
Monday, Emmanuel Macron receives at the Elysee the representatives of the automotive industry.
The latter are calling for help to finance their ecological transition and in particular the switch to the electric motor demanded by Brussels, which should demand the abandonment of the heat engine in favor of electric by 2035.
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According to professionals in the sector, it would take 17 billion euros by 2025 to make this transition a success.
Manufacturers, equipment suppliers and social partners are therefore pleading for a support plan.
The challenge is twofold: we must develop the manufacture of electric batteries.
For the moment, France does not have enough "gigafactories" for batteries.
There are three factory projects, but we will have to develop even more by 2030 and therefore change scale.
Deploy electric charging stations
Electric charging stations must also be deployed at high speed.
On this point, France is late, since only 33,000 terminals have been installed while it was expected that there will be 100,000 in service by the end of the year.
Discussions should therefore focus on a detailed plan to support this profound change in the sector. A transition that should create more than 35,000 jobs