An old Opel minivan that smokes a lot. Photo credit MaxPPP.
While French deputies are still working on the development of the 2025 budget, we know a little more about the contours of the purchasing aid planned for new electric cars next year.
If social leasing and the ecological bonus must remain on the program, with possibly reduced amounts and reduced scope of application, the conversion bonus will be removed as reported by journalists from BFMTV and Le Figaro. Forced to find savings in its new budget, the government has in fact decided to sacrifice this system which still allows you to benefit from a bonus of up to €5,000 in the event of scrapping an old car (Crit'Air sticker 3 and more) to buy a new electric car. In 2024, 45,000 people had benefited from this conversion bonus which cost the French administration 150 million euros.
Soon new aid for the purchase of used electric cars
Instead of 1.5 billion euros in aid in 2024, the French government is now counting on an envelope of one billion for its annual aid for the purchase of electric vehicles in 2025. It now remains to know the details of the new “social leasing” and the 2025 ecological bonus. Note that used electric cars should be affected by this “2025” version of social leasing, in order to support the second-hand zero-emission vehicle market whose residual values are currently giving dealers a cold sweat.
Remember that the 2025 ecological penalty project, which planned to further increase taxes on new thermal vehicles, was rejected by deputies a few days ago.
