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Article: France plans Feebate based on CO2; $7,300 bonus for EV's

Looks like France watched what happened with Canada's EcoAuto FeeBate program, and decided to improve on it:

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Under the scheme, a bonus will be paid to purchasers of new passenger cars emitting less than 130 g CO2/km, which now represents about 30% of sales. The bonus will be supplemented by an extra payment when the acquisition of the vehicle is accompanied by the scrapping of a vehicle that is more than 15 years old.

Conversely, buyers of new vehicles that emit more than 160 g CO2/km will pay a penalty. This will affect approximately 25% of new vehicles sold.

Buyers of vehicles emitting between 130-160g CO2 will not receive a bonus nor will they pay a tax. This “neutral zone” will apply to about 45% of vehicle purchases.

The payments and the penalties are based on a sliding scale—the less (or more) carbon dioxide emitted, the greater the payment or penalty, respectively. The threshold points for payments or penalties will advance 5 g CO2/km every two years to encourage ongoing development efforts.

source: Green Car Congress

France's proposed program makes Canada's program look like it was penned by a couple of grade-schoolers. France's is much fairer to the automakers (sliding scale of thresholds without the massive steps in rebate/tax amounts found in the Canadian system; incentive to replace older vehicles - something the CDN lobby has been clamouring for).

On the other hand, the carrots and sticks for consumers are much better designed as well.

I also like this:

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"The threshold points for payments or penalties will advance 5 g CO2/km every two years to encourage ongoing development efforts."

As usual, the comments at GCC are worth a read for that article.

E.G.

Would it not make more sense to implement an annual vehicle registration carrot/stick program, rather than a one-time dis/incentive at purchase time?

And also of course, the inevitable comments about whether the rationale behind this attempt at social engineering is even justified...

Dumb question. How do you figure out what 160g/CO2/KM means?:confused:

I agree that they should make it a annual thing.

Not a dumb question. It's worth trying to find a "translation" for people who don't use that metric.

Off the top of my head, all I can give you is a this single comparison point, from the earlier post about the heavily ecomodded Renault Logan:

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"97g/km (NEDC combined cycle) equivalent to fuel consumption of 3.8 liters/100km (62 mpg US)"

I'm sure there's a calculator out there, but I'm having no luck.

A formula might be available somewhere at fueleconomy.gov, for example, because they list the CO2 emission estimates for each vehicle along with the EPA ratings.

That's a pretty hefty rebate for EVs. I wonder if this would apply to the cost of conversion as well?