The Senate is tackling electric cars that are too heavy. After we discovered that hybrid SUVs had no ecological benefits, we discovered that heavy electric SUVs do not do any better from an environmental point of view, with monstrous batteries making it possible to do moving behemoths far from being aerodynamic and therefore efficient. As an amendment for the development of the 2025 finance law, the following proposal: add a penalty to electric cars weighing more than 2,300 kg.
Last year, the subject was already discussed, and the initial proposal aimed for a new penalty linked to the mass of electric cars to apply from 1,900 kg, at the rate of an additional 10 euros penalty per extra kilo. Which would have increased the bill for the purchase of a Peugeot e-3008 by more than 2,000 euros.
Christine Lavarde, French Senator, member of the Les Républicains party, spoke with Autoactu and declared: “ it is important to send a signal to consumers: the electric car, if it is very heavy, has a significant environmental footprint.” A story of “carbon debt”, again and again with the electric car, which may not release anything into the air in terms of exhaust gases, requires much more resources to manufacture than a thermal car.
The electric car models concerned
The Senator was delighted that such a measure does not concern electric cars from French manufacturers, while the largest models offered by our brands are below the fateful bar. For example, a Peugeot e-5008 with seven seats on board has a curb weight of 2218 kg. A Renault Scénic is limited to 1,872 kg. That said, certain Asian models would be affected, such as the Kia EV9 (2,310 kg), and NIO ES8 (2,800 kg), but also and above all German SUVs, from the Volkswagen ID.4 GTX (2,340 kg) to the Audi e-tron 55 (2,720 kg) through the Mercedes EQC, Porsche Taycan, Tesla Model S Performance, and other BMW iX3s.
The amendment should not be retained by the government, but should give it ideas for future years. Today, the electric market is still very sensitive, gloomy and the government would have everything to lose by starting to charge those they were trying to motivate to switch to electric, with big penalties on thermal SUVs . Moreover, purchasing aid, such as the ecological bonus, will fall sharply from next year, which should already hurt manufacturers' sales volumes.
In the meantime, the Senate has also worked on an amendment concerning the gradual reduction of the CO2 levels of cars affected by the ecological penalty, giving more freedom to manufacturers. Thus, the Senate would like the reduction in the CO2 limit level to be limited to 5 g/km each year – which would therefore give 113 g/km in 2025 then 108 g/km in 2026 and 103 g/km in 2027 (at instead of 106 g/km and 99 g/km desired by the government in 2026 and 2027).
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