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National players in the automotive, digital, public transport, and infrastructure industries are involved in working groups. They are solution providers, infrastructure builders or operators, vehicle and rolling stock manufacturers, electronics or information systems manufacturers, service operators or startups active in the ICT field.

An example of projects is Renault Software Labs. It is composed of two entities, one for

embedded software and another for offboard software, who work together and for each other

to develop end-to-end connected platform software services and extended vehicle platform

software Renault Software Factory | LinkedIn

SCOOP is a pilot project for the deployment of cooperative intelligent transport systems, i.e.,

systems based on the exchange of information between vehicles and between vehicles and

roads.

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France is betting on electric and hydrogen vehicles

The French government has incentivized the purchasing of hybrid and electric vehicles, both two and four-wheeled. There are more than 250,000 electric passenger vehicles on French roads (mainly Renault Zoe; Volkswagen ID.3; Dacia Spring; Fiat 500E; Renault Twingo ZE; Peugeot E-208; Tesla

Model3; Kia E-Niro; Volkswagen E-UP; Hyndai Kona and Nissan Leaf) and around 70,300 plug-in-hybrid electric passenger vehicles (mainly Toyota with 4 models and Peugeot 3008).

The market for electric bicycles is booming with brands such as Moustache, Kalkhoff Cannondale, VanMoof and Nakamura (electric bikes represent 45% of total bike sales in France in 2020). Buses in large French cities have already moved from 100 percent diesel to hybrid engines (mainly Iveco, Heuliez, Man, Mercedes, Solaris, Safra, Van Hool and Volvo brands).

To support the electric vehicle initiative, France plans to install seven million charging points for hybrid and electric vehicles by

2030 through partnerships with OEMs, energy suppliers and charging station infrastructure providers. The pan-European IPCEI project has recently launched to develop fuel cells, tanks and materials to enable the development of hydrogen vehicles.