Ecological no-claims bonus / loaded premium: the flexfuel returns in favour

Since January 1st, 2009, models flexfuel are not any more subjected to loaded premium. On the occasion of the Week of the sustainable development, return on this new breath for the course of study of biofuels, considerably penalised in 2008.

The device of the ecological no-claims bonus-loaded premium came into force on the January 1st, 2008. Cars working in E85 (mixture composed in 85 % of bio-ethanol of agricultural origin) were subjected in the same capacity as models petrol or diesel there. And yet if difference between CO2's programmes of a flexfuel vehicle and those of one without - lead remains negligible in equal power, the rejections of E85 are assumed have been compensated by the photosynthesis of the cultures which produced it, what loaded premium initially did not take into account.

Finance act 2009 amends the device by applying from now on a depression of 40 % to CO2's programmes of vehicles flexfuel, provided that these do not exceed 250 g / km. In practice, the huge majority of these models are therefore exempted from now on from loaded premium. So supported, the flexfuel becomes therefore particularly favourable and settles in appealing alternative in the diesel, the additional cost of which in the purchase will be amortised only in very long-term (100 000 km, or about 10 years on average) by a lesser consumption. Besides, tax favours which use E85 guarantee him a stable price (more or less 0,85/l) when that some diesel fuel threatens any time to leave again in.

The only flat, the network of distribution of E85 remains embryonic in France. On 13 000 stations service of the national territory, barely more than 300 are equipped at present. Cars flexfuel remain however capable of working in without - pure lead, and are then always competitive facing models petrol thanks to the absence of loaded premium. Always misread, E85 is not however so marginal any more on the market; he should logically use to a great extent this state nudge in the right direction in 2009. This last comes at called point for Saab, always in the vanguard on the sector of biofuels but dropped in February by the headquarters in death throes. Renault, Dacia, Ford and Volvo also developed a range of models E85 which deserve the detour for which thought a priori of the diesel. If the contribution of biofuels in the sustainable development remains subject to deposit, wallet and amenity find their count today widely in this new alternative.