Electric cars: the government's plan to increase the number of charging stations and simplify their use

How can we encourage the French to swap their combustion engine cars for electric ones? Beyond the thorny issue of the purchase price of battery-powered vehicles, there's the issue of charging. To ensure that filling up with electricity is no longer an obstacle, the government wants more and more charging stations accessible to the public, with better information on their availability and prices.

To illustrate this point, two ministers, Éric Lombard (Economy) and Marc Ferracci (Industry and Energy), were with Alexandre Bompard , CEO of Carrefour , in the parking lot of a hypermarket in L'Haÿ-les-Roses (Val-de-Marne) this Friday afternoon. The opportunity to highlight the importance of accessibility to electric terminals, but also to take stock of what has already been accomplished. France is now on the podium of the best-equipped European countries, behind Germany and the Netherlands. It now has nearly 2.5 million charging points, of which more than 168,000 are…