The ecological bonus that is intended to lower the price of electric cars in France lives its last hours. Before privatization, via the EEC, which runs the risk of flambéing the price of electricity and fuels (in particular gasoline and diesel).
The stroke of the plane is serious. And above all almost unnoticed. Although he had promised 700 million euros to finance the ecological bonus in 2025, the state assesses all its copy.
According to media information ContextThe budget that is actually assigned to the greening of vehicles melts at full speed: this year only 496 million euros will ultimately be available. A net decline, without an official announcement for the time being, which changes the situation in the situation for people who want to benefit from this boost for the purchase of an electric vehicle.
The figure has something to do. Even half compared to the previous year, the budget for the 174 program (the program that finances the ecological bonus) has just undergone a new head of 200 million euros, because this could be noticed in detail of the payment credits published by the government.
At the end of January Bercy had already decided an “extra economy” of 324 million euros on this budget line without describing the consequences. From now on we understand better what is happening behind the scenes: the bonus is under close monitoring of the bonus, because the 2025 envelope would soon be completely exhausted.
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This Budget Sleight or Hand intervenes in an already tense context. At the beginning of the year, the government announced that it wanted to revise the ecological bonus from top to bottom, in particular through conditioning aid for an environmental score and European production.
This re -concentration had to “focus better”, according to the Ministry of ecological transition. But this new decrease, formalized discreetly through an update of payment credits, is more like an outright reduction in the ambition.
Clear: three times fewer subsidies than in 2024 (if we also take into account social leasing and the scrap premium), more restrictive rules and an almost dry envelope in June.
To prevent a total Black -out in the second half, the executive power provides for an relay system: from 1 July, the financing of the ecological bonus will be looking for energy -saving certificates (EEC). A measure also revealed by context, which reflects a wish to ‘outsource’ the financing from greening to energy, private companies.
To pass the pill better, the amount of this new ecological bonus would be revised upwards for all houses, as we describe in a special news.
The end of a central lever for electric?
The impact can be huge. Because despite all its limits (administrative complexity, instability of the rules, exclusion of many virtuous models), the ecological bonus has remained one of the pillars of the car crossing so far. Above all, the transition to the EEC can soak the energy bill (electricity, fuel oil and fuels) of the French because of the financing mode.
This drastic reduction of public support sends a ambiguous signal to consumers and industrialists. By gradually withdrawing from this auxiliary mechanism, the state takes the risk of further slowing down the electrification dynamics, although the European climatic objectives have not changed.
The German example should not be forgotten: the pure and simple abolition of the ecological bonus at the end of 2023 had led to a catastrophic year 2024 in terms of the sale of electric cars.
