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Emmanuel Macron yesterday inaugurated the 90th Paris Motor Show. The opportunity for the Head of State to review the situation with electric vehicles.
Since the appointment of Michel Barnier to Matignon and the start of this strange cohabitation, Emmanuel Macron had mainly occupied his time with international questions, his reserved domain. Yesterday, thanks to the opening of the Paris Motor Show, the Head of State resumed a national trip, moreover on themes that he likes: the economy, strategy and sovereignty industrial.
“France must continue to reindustrialize”
The opportunity also for the President to give his opinion on the 2025 Budget which begins its parliamentary journey on Wednesday in an electric atmosphere. “There is work that must be done between the government and Parliament,” said the head of state, in response to a question on the balance to be found between taxation and reduction of deficits. “France must continue to reindustrialize, must continue to innovate and must continue to create jobs and encourage job creation, that is the country’s priority,” he continued.
The electric vehicle sector constitutes, in his eyes, a good example of this policy aimed at reindustrializing France. “We are in the process of consolidating an electricity sector which produces and will produce even more here,” he explained, while, when he arrived at the Elysée in 2017, there were “no vehicles electrical products produced in our country.
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The France 2030 plan, launched in 2021 to prepare for the post-Covid era and which provides for 54 billion euros of investments in total, had notably set the objective of producing in France, by 2030, nearly 2 million electric and hybrid vehicles. In 2023, France will produce 490,000 electric and hybrid vehicles.
France, with a National Strategy, has also mobilized on batteries, the sinews of the electric war. A “gigafactory” in Pas-de-Calais, Automotive CellS company (ACC), owned by Stellantis, Total and Mercedes, must equip, by 2030, 500,000 cars with electric batteries and employ 2,000 people. Currently, 100 batteries leave the factory each day compared to 2,000 planned. Other factories have been set up in Hauts-de-France and in May the Bolloré group was considering the construction of a mega-battery factory in eastern France.
