French president Emmanuel Macron already unveiled new incentives to sway buyers away from Chinese models toward French and European ones, including a new €100 per month leasing scheme for EU-made electric cars, with those details announced today. The French government also announced a big rollout of cash incentives for first-time EV buyers, as long as they bought cars made in the EU.

    • bitflag@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      He was always like this and has been distributing public money left and right. France’s public spending and taxation as a share of GDP are at all time highs.

      It’s just the French left thinks everybody to their right is a spawn of Reagan and Thatcher.

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      1 year ago

      It’s so nationalistic and anti China that it came full circle.