- In the first four months of 2013, 4,968 new electric vehicles were sold in France. The hybrid market seems more promising with 15,292 new vehicles sold in France in the first four months of 2013, three times more than the 100% electric vehicles.

- At this rate, the electric car market could reach between 15,000 and 20,000 vehicles throughout the year 2013, and the hybrid car market between 45 000 and 50 000 (against 9000 electric vehicles and 28,000 hybrid vehicles in 2012). The market for electric and hybrid vehicles has doubled each year in France.

- The increase in the number of charging stations for electric vehicles in France do not yet follow this trend. Today, France has 5,000 charging points listed (including 4000 Autolib terminals), a volume comparable to that of the Netherlands or Great Britain. When the Paris car sharing system is excluded, the country has fewer charging stations than Germany, Italy or Portugal.

- To be in line with the sales growth of electric vehicles and catch up on some of its European neighbors, France should be endowed with 10,000 public terminals in 2013, 20,000 in 2014 and 30,000 in 2015.

 Data source: File #55 - Registrations in the World by makes