According to a recent survey, 27% of French people would be ready to change cars in 2023 for an electric model, a downward trend compared to last year.
While we push for their mass adoption for a lower impact on the environment, electric cars have lost their appeal with the French. This is what the third edition of the Mobility Observatory reveals, a survey carried out by Sixt, in partnership with Ifop, and released Tuesday by Le Parisien.
In 2023, fewer French people interested in electric cars than in 2022
Main lesson of this survey, a small proportion of French people interested in switching to electric cars. 27% of respondents indicated that they intended to make such an acquisition in 2023, compared to 32% last year. It is pointed out that in 2022, 200,000 electric cars had found takers.
1 in 2 respondents would doubt the impact on climate change
We can assume that this decline is explained, at least in part, by skepticism about the impact of the electric car on climate change. One respondent out of two considers that this is an ineffective means of combating it. Frédéric Dhabi, Managing Director of Ifop, adds that “seniors and working-class social categories remain largely skeptical”and “they are the first to be convinced”.
The price, another reason for hesitation
For current owners of an electric vehicle, the joy is almost total (97%). Only, for two out of three French people not being equipped in this way, the price constitutes a sufficient reason for hesitation. Only 16% would consider that the electric model is more economical than the thermal one. The president of Sixt France, Jean-Philippe Doyen, points out that“Between the end of the month and the end of the world, it is the end of the month that primarily concerns the French, hence the need to maintain and simplify the bonus policy”.
