2023-04-13 06:30:06
If you live in a conurbation of more than 150,000 inhabitants, you will be affected by low mobility emission zones (ZFE-m) by 2025. The annual Barometer on Low Emission Zones shows that the mistrust of the French vis- vis-à-vis this device increases.
The Climate and Resilience law provides for the staggered creation of Low Mobility Emission Zones (ZFE-m) throughout France. By early 2025, Crit’Air 3, 4, 5 vehicles will no longer be able to circulate in 43 urban areas with more than 150,000 inhabitants. This will also be the case for Crit’Air 2 vehicles in Île-de-France in 2025 and in Rhône-Alpes in 2028. According to the Observatory of Low Emission Zones and Electric Vehicles, conducted for the second consecutive year by the CSA polling institute, with more than 10,000 French people, 37% of vehicles in circulation will be impacted by these ZFE-m and should be renewed in less than two years.
Millions of vehicles affected
“Today, around 12 million Crit’Air 3, 4, 5 vehicles are in circulation in France,” recalls Xavier Terryn, director of the Connect division of CSA. In 2025, according to our estimate, we will be at 9 million. » And 36% of French people say they will continue to use their vehicle for lack of budget for the purchase of a new vehicle.
For the first time, the study projects the vehicle fleet likely to go to the ZFE-m. Franck Cazenave, mobility expert, details these results: “As of January 1, 2025, even if the ban on driving in 43 ZFEs for the Crit’Air 3 is put in place, there will remain 4.1 million vehicles which might continue to go to the ZFEs for lack of other alternative solutions. for drivers. On the same logic, for Crit’Air 4, 5 and unclassified vehicles, we go from 3.4 million to less than 2 million vehicles that might still enter the ZFEs. »
We are facing a social and environmental problem. CSA emphasizes the importance of developing aid for households to withdraw as a priority the 2 million Crit’Air 4 and 5 vehicles likely to enter the ZFE-m in 2025. Faced with the scale of the challenge, the institute recommends postpone the entry into force of the ban for Crit’Air 3 vehicles from 2025 to 2027.
Refractory French people
As the first deployments unfold, the French are getting to know the ZFE-m better and better. 51% of French people now give the correct definition (+14 points compared to 2022). The best informed people are thus those who are directly affected by the regulations already in place. In Île-de-France, 60% of Ile-de-France residents are familiar with the Greater Paris ZFE, for example. The situation is the same in the Rhône-Alpes region with 70% for the Lyon ZFE and 56% for the Grenoble ZFE.
However, the French express a persistent feeling of lack of information concerning ZFEs and Crit’Airs. Only 36% of respondents were able to assign the right Crit’Air to their vehicle. “More problematic, when we are on the basis of the only cars impacted by the ZFE, only 29% of the vehicles were attributed to the Crit’Air vouchers”adds Xavier Terryn.
In the end, 51% of French people say they are in favor of EPZs. This is a drop of 6 points compared to 2022. Thus, when they become aware of the device, mistrust sets in. Confidence drops all the more among people who own a polluting vehicle or who are directly affected by this system. “This rejection is particularly strong among people with at least one vehicle concerned: 49% of them are resistant to it, this figure rising to 62% among holders of Crit’Air 4.5 or unclassified cars”warns CSA.
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