Electric Cars on French Roads
October 19th, 2008 | 
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France is preparing itself to welcome electric cars, with President Nicolas Sarkozy pledging to mobilize around €400 million of public money over a period of four years, on the research and development of electric cars. Furthermore EDF also announced that it had entered into agreements with PSA Peugeot Citroen and Renault to build infrastructure for recharging plug in electric cars as well as the hybrid versions. EDF has already been working with Toyota to develop plug in electric car for France, as well as UK. In fact they started testing Toyota’s plug in hybrid car last month in UK.
The government of France is providing much needed support by offering various financial incentives like offering a tax bonus of €5,000 till 2012, for cars with ultra low emission. President Sarkozy also announced that he would like changes in the European Union state aid regulations that would support the investments of automakers who manufacture the best electric cars for sale.
It is heartening to see so many positive developments happening simultaneously not only in France but all over UK. The governments of all these countries have shown great foresight by supporting electric cars enthusiastically, hopefully all this would lead to a cleaner, greener future and end our dependency on fossil fuels for good.
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