Soaring fuel prices, inflation… why these French people are giving up their car

2023-11-07 07:54:37

Faced with the purchasing power crisis, the individual car, a symbol of freedom and anchored in habits for decades, is losing ground. If living without a car remains, in the collective imagination, a possibility offered to residents of large metropolises with a plethora of public transport options, more and more households in rural or peri-urban France, where the car is the main means of locomotion, also let go of the steering wheel.