Aurélien Fleurot, edited by Laura Laplaud 06:44, November 14, 2022

Each year, nearly 600,000 used cars are sold with a falsified meter.

An operation that consists of artificially lowering the number of kilometers recorded by the meter in order to inflate the resale price of the vehicle.

To guarantee the authenticity of the meter, the Odopass app is launching a new blockchain-based service.

Europe 1 exclusively reveals its instructions to you.

Odometer fraud affects approximately 600,000 used cars sold in France each year, or one in six, according to a study by the Fédération Internationale Automobile.

The Odopass application, a start-up specializing in simplifying the purchase and sale of vehicles between individuals, is launching the first service to guarantee the authenticity of data.

Europe 1 reveals its instructions to you.

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Guarantee a reliable history

The process is very simple: the owner scans gray card and ID on this free application.

He will then regularly take a photo of his odometer that Odopass will store and secure using blockchain technology, this data storage mode that is impossible to modify.

Enough to guarantee a reliable history when reselling a vehicle, as explained by Ghislain Trabichet, co-founder of this digital passport for your car: "It allows either sellers to value and justify that the price of sale of his car is totally consistent, either for the buyer to be able to take into account maintenance or costs that will be coming very soon."

"It's really a tool that will make it possible to professionalize sales between individuals", he continues at the microphone of Europe 1. A solution that goes further than Histovec, the service managed by the government which offers a history but only related to technical control.

Odopass is aimed at individuals but is in contact with automotive professionals to integrate this "pass" into their sales.

In France, changing a meter is considered a criminal offense punishable by one to two years in prison and a fine of 37,500 euros.