Not entirely relevant since I'm in Belgium and not France, but it's a similar type of scheme with similar intent, get cars off of the road, and I think it deser

Not entirely relevant since I'm in Belgium and not France, but it's a similar type of scheme with similar intent, get cars off of the road, and I think it deserves some attention. As for some context, in Belgium we have a high tax burden on wages and one of the ways this was historically cushioned was by allowing companies to offer certain extra benefits to employees at a big tax advantage. One of these things was salary cars and it has resulted in an absolute explosion of subsidized cars among white collar workers. There's about 650000 of these cars on the road, and that's in a country of 11 million people. About a year ago the government came up with a scheme that allows people to turn in their salary cars and receive the same tax advantaged amount in the form of a monthly mobility budget that can be spent on alternative forms of transportation. I have a little handy app that allows me to get rent scooters, do car sharing, get reimbursed a rental car. It's cumulative in the sense that whatever hasn't been spent by the end of the month, just rolls over into the next months balance. Last but not least, like the French scheme, it's allows for the purchases of e-bikes, bikes, electric motorcycles, scooters etc. The French scheme seems a bit too binary in comparison.