2023-07-13 12:41:54
By PLB
Posted 25 minutes ago, Updated 10 minutes ago
The journeys made over the first six months of the year made it possible to avoid almost 25,000 tonnes of CO2. Andrey Popov / stock.adobe.com
Unveiled this Thursday, an initial assessment of the plan to promote this practice highlights a doubling of the number of journeys compared to the same period in 2022.
The French are more carpooling. Six months after the launch of the national plan supposed to promote the use of this practice of travel to two or more, the ministers Christophe Béchu, Agnès Pannier-Runacher and Clément Beaune welcome the first results “positive“. An engaging observation for what the executive describes as a “essential lever of the ecological transition».
Over the last six months, more than 5.1 million carpooling trips have been recorded by all the platforms. A balance sheet twice as large as in 2022 over the same period, according to figures from the national carpooling observatory. These journeys haveavoided nearly 25,000 tons of CO2 and saved the equivalent of 7.7 million liters of oil», Specifies the Ministry of Ecological Transition.
«Good for reducing our energy consumption and good for the purchasing power of the French, carpooling must continue to become part of the habits of the French“commented Agnès Pannier-Runacher, quoted in the press release. The Minister for Energy Transition further estimated that “this dynamic“was to”continue in order to onboard even more drivers and passengers in the second half of the year, and have them become regular carpoolers for their daily journeys“. The Delegate Minister in charge of Transport, for his part, welcomed the “130,000 new drivers who trust carpooling throughout France“, before extolling the merits of this practice. “We can make our car fleet a real means of collective transport“, launched Clément Beaune.
“50 million empty seats every day”
Invited this Thursday by RMC, the Minister Delegate affirmed that there was up to “50 million empty seats every day in Francein private vehicles, inviting as many people as possible touse the car differently“. Clément Beaune hopes to do so “go to another scale» carpooling, in particular by multiplying aid for those who would like to get started. A check for 100 euros is already sent to each new registrant on a carpooling platform “whoever she is“, he recalled, or “twenty-five euros immediately, and an additional 75 euros after ten journeys to check that the carpooling has been carried out“. Carpooling can be organised, added Clément Beaune, taking the example of the Reims conurbation, where meeting points “carpoolinghave been installed, withthe assurance that in less than ten minutes, someone will come and pick you up».
The good momentum unveiled on Thursday should not overshadow the government’s ambitious objective in this area, which is “reach 3 million daily trips, compared to 900,000 at the end of 2022“. This would allow, according to the Ministry of Ecological Transition “to achieve up to 4.5 million tonnes of annual CO2 avoided, i.e. 1% of France’s annual GHG emissions».
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