France Offering $3,000 Vouchers for E-Bikes if You Throw Away Your Car
France is offering 2,500 euros (about $2,993 USD) to individuals interested in purchasing electrically driven bicycles. But it’s pursuing the Cash for Clunkers mentality that often leaves us questioning whether the people instituting these environmental plans are familiar with the concept of conservation. Because the current proposal requires participants to throw away their automobiles before they’re granted access to the funds.
Originally reported by
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France could offer cash to scrap cars for electric bikes
France could offer cash to scrap cars for electric bikes
Lawmakers may pay motorists $2,975 to swap four wheels for two
Reuters
Cyclists are pictured in Paris.
PARIS France could offer the owners of old cars 2,500 euros ($2,975) to swap their vehicles for an electric bicycle.
Lawmakers in the National Assembly approved the measure in a preliminary vote.
It was an amendment to a draft climate bill passing through parliament that aims to reduce greenhouse emissions by 40 percent in 2030 from 1990 levels.
If adopted, France will become the first country in the world to offer people the chance to trade in an aging vehicle for an electric or folding bicycle, the French Federation of Bicycle Users (FUB) said.