L2024 edition of the study of Transport & Environment (T&E) on the greening of automobile fleets gives a sad overview of the environmental sincerity of large French companies: 60% of companies operating the largest automobile fleets in the country have not respected their greening quota in 2023, set at 10% by law mobility orientation.
Electric vehicles (EVs), for example, represented 1% of cars and utility vehicles registered last year by Carrefour and Free, and 2% at Air Liquide. On average, the 3,447 companies subject to the law (those operating a fleet of more than 100 vehicles) purchased 8% of EVs, much less than households, for whom they represented 22% of purchases!
Corporate fleet hybrids only drive in electric mode less than 15% of the time, according to the International Council on Clean Transportation, the think tank which revealed the Volkswagen scandal in 2015. It is not without reason that the bill from Renaissance MP Damien Adam, which aims to accelerate the pace of electrification and introduce sanctions for offenders, excludes them from purchases considered to be truly greening. unfortunately represent, in most cases, nothing more than greenwashing.
5 million barrels less oil per day by 2030
Corporate fleet hybrids only drive in electric mode less than 15% of the time, according to the International Council on Clean Transportation, the think tank which revealed the Volkswagen scandal in 2015. It is not without reason that the bill from Renaissance MP Damien Adam, which aims to accelerate the pace of electrification and introduce sanctions for offenders, excludes them from purchases considered to be truly greening.
Would the leaders of the main French companies therefore be permeable to the misinformation that we still find in 2024 on the ecological impact of EVs? If this is the case, we, students and young graduates, particularly from the Pour un Réveil Écologique collective, propose to remind them here of some of the basic data on the subject.
According to the International Energy Agency, the electrification of mobility is expected to reduce global oil demand by 5 million barrels of oil per day by 2030, based on current EV sales trends. According to Carbone 4, the consulting firm co-founded by Jean-Marc Jancovici, “over its lifespan in France, an electric car overall emits three to four times less CO2 than its thermal equivalent ». An order of magnitude that we find in all recent studies, notably in the works by Aurélien Bigo, associate researcher at the Energy and Prosperity Chair [de l’Institut Louis-Bachelier].
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