Conversion premium for a car

Verified 30 juin 2025 - Directorate for Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)

Your situation

  • You scrap a gasoline vehicle
  • You buy or rent a vehicle that uses electricity, hydrogen or a combination of the two as its exclusive source of energy 
  • Your reference tax income per share is more than €7,100 and less than or equal to €15,400
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However, the rules in force on 1er December 2024 shall continue to apply to a new vehicle ordered or whose lease was signed before December 2, 2024, if invoicing, or payment of 1er rent, shall take place no later than 14 February 2025.

These transitional provisions do not apply to second-hand vehicles.  Consequently, aid applications must be submitted no later than 6 months after the date of invoicing of the vehicle or, in the case of a rental, payment of 1er As of June 2, 2025, it is no longer possible to apply for assistance for a used vehicle.

To qualify for the conversion premium, you must meet the following conditions:

  • Be major
  • Be domiciled in France
  • Buy a vehicle of category M1 of the type Private Car (VP), or rent this vehicle under a contract of 2 years or more
  • Your reference tax income per unit is less than or equal to €24,900 (€15,400 for a car whose energy source includes petrol, natural gas, LPG, ethanol or superethanol)
    2022 benchmark tax revenue if the date of the vehicle's billing, or payment of 1er rent in case of rental, intervenes in 2024. Check out your 2023 tax notice.
    2023 benchmark tax revenue if the date of the vehicle's billing, or payment of 1er rent in case of rental, intervenes in 2025. Check out your 2024 tax notice.

You are not eligible for the conversion premium only once.

One legal person with an establishment in France is eligible for the conversion premium.

The legal person is not limited in the number of premiums, but can only benefit from them once for the same vehicle, whether purchased or rented, for a period of at least 2 years.

To qualify for the conversion premium, you must scrap a petrol or diesel vehicle.

Petrol vehicle

The petrol vehicle to be destroyed shall meet the following conditions:

  • Being a vehicle of category M1 (type VP) or a vehicle of category N1 (e.g. CTTE)
  • Have been assigned a 1re registration before 1er january 2006
  • To have been acquired by the beneficiary of the premium for at least 1 year
  • Be registered in France in a normal series or with a final registration number
  • Not be gambled
  • In the case of a vehicle considered to be a damaged vehicle by an expert, it must have been insured for at least 1 year on the date of its delivery for destruction or on the date of invoicing of the vehicle acquired or rented.
  • Be given for destruction within 3 months before or within 6 months after the new vehicle is invoiced to a end-of-life vehicles center (ELC) in France. The vehicle can also be handed over for destruction to a VHU center located abroad if it complies with the same rules as in France and if it issues you a certificate of destruction.

A car that uses electricity, hydrogen or a combination of the two as its exclusive source of energy 

The vehicle shall meet all of the following conditions:

  • Being a vehicle of category M1 of a kind Passenger Car (VP)
  • Be purchased, or leased under a contract of 2 years or more
  • Be registered in France with a final number
  • Not to be sold within one year of the vehicle's invoice date or payment date of 1er rent, nor before having traveled at least 6,000 km
  • Not be considered a damaged vehicle
  • Acquisition cost must be less than or equal to €47,000TTC: titleContent , including, if necessary, the cost of acquiring or leasing the battery
  • The mass in running order shall be less than 2 400 kg
  • If the vehicle is nine, sound environmental score must be 60 points or more. You can consult online the list of vehicles that have obtained this score.
  • If the vehicle is used, on 1re registration must be at least 1 year old.

If you sell the vehicle before the minimum time or before you have traveled the minimum distance, you will need to alert the ownerASP: titleContent or the dealer who has advanced the aid to you, and return the aid within 3 months of the sale.

If the aid has been paid for a lease and the duration of the lease is increased to less than 2 years after its signature, the refund shall take place within 3 months of the modification of the contract.

Your reference tax income per share is more than €7,100 and less than or equal to €15,400

2022 benchmark tax revenue if the date of the vehicle's billing, or payment of 1er rent in case of rental, intervenes in 2024. Check out your 2023 tax notice.

2023 benchmark tax revenue if the date of the vehicle's billing, or payment of 1er rent in case of rental, intervenes in 2025. Check out your 2024 tax notice.

2022 benchmark tax revenue if the date of the vehicle's billing, or payment of 1er rent in case of rental, intervenes in 2024. Check out your 2023 tax notice.

2023 benchmark tax revenue if the date of the vehicle's billing, or payment of 1er rent in case of rental, intervenes in 2025. Check out your 2024 tax notice.

The amount of the conversion premium shall be set at 80 % of the acquisition cost, up to €5,000 if you fill one of the 2 conditions following: 

  • The path length carried out with your personal vehicle, between home and work, is greater than 30 km
  • You do more than 12,000 km per year with your personal vehicle for your professional activity

If you do not meet these conditions, the premium is set at €1,500.

Please note

You benefit from a extra premium of €1,000 if you live or work in a low-emission mobility zone (LMA). If your local authority paid you a grant to buy or rent a vehicle clean against the destruction of an old vehicle, the overpremium is increased of the amount of local aid up to €2,000 additional. For example, if the local aid is €3 000, the additional premium is €1 000, plus €2 000 = €3 000.

The cumulative amount of aid for the same vehicle (ecological bonus, conversion premium, retrofit premium) must not exceed the acquisition cost TTC: titleContent of this vehicle.

This amount includes any additional premiums received (‘additional premium’) overseas for the bonus, “overpremium low-emission area mobility for the conversion premium and the retrofit premium).

The cost of acquisition TTC: titleContent of the vehicle is increased, if necessary, by the cost of the battery rented.

For a legal person, the conversion premium shall relate only to the purchase or rental of a vehicle that uses electricity, hydrogen or a combination of the two as its exclusive source of energy.

The amount of the conversion premium shall be fixed at €1,500.

The conversion premium can be deducted from the purchase price by the trader, or refunded if you request it after the purchase or payment of the first rent.

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Advance by the professional

The aid shall be deducted from the purchase price TTC: titleContent if the trader (dealer, body which has granted a micro-credit for own vehicle) agrees to advance the amount of the aid to you.

The aid and any increase must be identified and visible on the invoice: there is a specific line indicating the amount of aid granted.

In the case of a lease, the aid shall be indicated on the receipt, the lease agreement or a certificate conforming to a model made available by theASP: titleContent, countersigned by the tenant.

The trader shall affix a sticker to the vehicle indicating that the acquisition of the vehicle has benefited from State aid.

Personal request

If the trader (dealer, body which has granted a micro-credit for own vehicle) does not advance the conversion premium to you, you must apply for it yourself online.

If the conversion premium is combined with the bonus, you must make a single application for the 2 aids.

Online application for the ecological bonus or conversion bonus

Please note

Applications for aid must be made no later than 6 months according to the date of billing of the vehicle. In the case of a lease, the request must be made no later than 6 months following the date of payment of 1er rent.

Online application for the ecological bonus or conversion bonus

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