French Government raises EV incentive to 7,000 EUR

Yesterday, French government announced his will to support EVs & hybrids purchases raising their incentives to 7,000 EUR and 4,000 EUR (instead of 5,000 EUR and 2,000 EUR before), applicable now !

These incentives will be available to companies and public sector too, and this last one will have to purchase 25% of EVs for its fleets 

Also 50 Millions EUR will be dedicated to building / improving charge infrastructure


But it also says that all these efforts from the  government will be condictionned to having the cars and their components produced in France ...


Full article here:
Plan Automobile - 25 Juillet 2012

Ebay has a New category for EVs & Hybrids

Ebay Motors has now a new category for EVs, Hybrids and more, named "Green Driving", that makes search for a used or new EV much easier :  

Citroen concept cars shooting is over

Today, I went back Citroen Headquaters Showroom and the shooting that took place during the last two days was over; I could then enter and was able to take few pics of the Concept Cars :

It turns out that they are/will be hybrid / plugin hybrid cars, but who knows, maybe Citroen could make them fully electric one day ;-)

This aggressive looking one is called CITROEN SURVOLT :

More info here: http://www.citroen.fr/concept-car/#/concept-car/citroen-revolte/

And this purple round looking one is called CITROEN REVOLTE :

http://www.citroen.fr/concept-car/#/concept-car/citroen-revolte/