Aurélien Fleurot 06h22, June 05, 2022
While the future of the automobile is resolutely tending towards the electric with the almost recorded end of thermal cars in Europe by 2035, the strategies chosen to operate this changeover vary according to the country.
Financial incentives, direct aid to builders, initiatives abound.
There may be no more thermal cars sold in the European Union in 2035. But what about the other continents?
How is the electric car developing?
It is to answer these questions that the law firm De Gaulle Fleurance et Associés, in partnership with Avere-France, the national association for the development of electric mobility, has just published its first Observatory of Energy Transitions .
It demonstrates that the strategies chosen vary widely between countries.
According to indicators from Avere-France, the development of electric mobility has accelerated and now affects the whole world.
In 2021, the electric car represented 12% of the automotive market share (it was less than 1% in 2013), with 6 million vehicles sold (+100% compared to 2020).
Financial incentives with variable geometry
The Observatory deciphers the German example, where financial incentives are established, but not only.
There are also measures aimed at facilitating the use of electric cars by authorizing them to travel on bus lanes and allowing them to park in dedicated parking spaces.
As a result, in the 1st quarter of 2022, 24.4% of newly registered vehicles were electric vehicles.
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In China, the strategy adopted obliges car groups to sell at least 10% electricity and requires that 10% of parking spaces in public car parks be equipped with chargers.
By the end of 2021, the number of electric vehicles in the country reached 6.4 million.
Favor manufacturers or bet on terminals
Among the unique strategies, there is India, which, as Sylvie Perrin, a partner at the law firm De Gaulle Fleurance et Associés, has chosen to help builders directly: "There has been a massive deployment of builders : about 400 operate in the electric market. Which is very different from us where we have car companies that have gone electric".
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In India, it is therefore the opposite since new manufacturers have developed thanks to this aid.
Finally, Turkey has also made a radically different choice by betting first on a massive deployment of fast charging stations by subsidizing them up to 75%.
This is why Tesla, for example, is going to invest heavily to install a network of superchargers.