“Help with the purchase of a clean vehicle”, “yuppet”, “disposal bonus”: conversion bonus that we know today has changed considerably over the years, although its principle has remained more or less the same. It is about a envelope provided by the government against the return of your old car, provided it is only used to purchase a “less polluting” car. The rules change from year to year, and from 1^Er January 2023, eligible vehicles: diesel and petrol classified Crit’Air 5, Crit’Air 4 and Crit’Air 3 (+ unclassified vehicles). The premium is 5,000 euros and is reserved for households whose basic income per share is less than €22,983, but can rise to €6,000 if the income per share is less than €6,358.

In 2022, 92,000 cars were written off

So is this an incentive? Well, yes, you only have to look at the numbers recently released by the Senate to realize its effectiveness: Last year, 92,000 cars were decommissioned ! They have grown old 20 years on average70% of them run on diesel, and 30% on gasoline. This is the assessment of the state, which seeks to decarbonize the French car fleet 45 tons of particulate emissions and 160,000 tons of CO2 emissions could thus be avoided throughout 2021. But according to the Senate, which regrets that “The fact of systematically destroying all vehicles ‘replaced’ under the CAP, instead of reusing the least polluting ones among them, is not intuitive. » And for good reason: of the 92,000 cars scrapped in 2022, 59% of them were Crit’Air 3.

Reuse our old vehicles?

This means that almost 2 out of 3 scrapped cars were relatively old (diesel before 2006, petrol before 1997) and still in good working condition. At the same time, the Senate points to the fact that 13.3 million French people are in a situation of “mobility instability” and face difficulties in purchasing a new car.

In order to stop this phenomenon, a bill is currently being considered in the Senate: provide households with the lowest incomes with vehicles that were the subject of a conversion bonus, new and in good condition. It will be a long-term rental for €7 per day, reserved for households with a family ratio of less than €750. A helping hand for those with mobility issues and a welcome way to stay off the roads with vehicles that are mostly still functional…

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