France is making ready to launch a brand new electrical automobile subsidy program that may give individuals the power to lease an EV for €100 ($100) per thirty days. Budget Minister Gabriel Attal introduced the plan over the weekend on the nation’s LCI information channel, . “We know that for many French [EVs] remain very expensive,” he mentioned, including that the federal government was working to determine how rapidly it may implement the measure.

Under a subsidy scheme that’s just like the one launched by the US , French automobile patrons can at the moment obtain as a lot as off electrical automobiles that price lower than €47,000. Consumers also can benefit from a federal trade-in program to get cash for his or her previous combustion-engine automobiles. Despite these incentives, EVs solely accounted for 12 p.c of recent automobile gross sales in France in the course of the first seven months of 2022.

For context, France is considerably behind on that entrance in comparison with international locations like Norway. Last yr, battery-electric and hybrid automobiles made up of all new automobile gross sales throughout the Nordic nation. Much of what’s driving adoption there’s a subsidy scheme that enables automobile patrons to keep away from taxes which might be discovered on inside combustion engine automobiles.

Attal’s announcement follows months of extraordinarily sizzling climate throughout France as Europe and the world really feel the brunt of worsening local weather change. After enduring a number of heatwaves all through June and July, elements of Paris noticed temperatures rise to (almost 100 Fahrenheit) earlier this month.