Was Anne Hidalgo defending the use of large family cars in 2014? – Exemption

Parisians are invited to vote for or against this Sunday, February 4 “Creation of specific rates for parking of heavy, bulky, polluting private cars”. An expected meeting, especially for the mayor of Paris, Ann Hidalgo, who wants to reduce the number of SUVs in circulation in the capital. But the councilor would not have always defended the position, one of his opponents reprimanded X with a supporting video. A nineteen-second extract mentions the mayor “Uses of Parisians in relation to cars”: “It is good to be able to transport many people, four is not bad. It is good to have a trunk in the car to put packages and strollers. It is good to allow people with children to take this vehicle”she explains.

However, contrary to what this short extract suggests, these comments have nothing to do with a defense of the large family car. This extract is taken from the opening speech of the “Smart City” Forum during its first edition in 2014. Hidalgo discusses it “The idea of ​​car sharing was initiated during the previous mandate”or AutoLib’, which allowed self-service electric car rentals between 2011 and 2018.

Here is an excerpt from the context:

“We were told, they must be two-seater vehicles, because (otherwise) it will not work, or three-seater vehicles including the front three. I remember at the time, I said no, let’s look at the habits of Parisians in relation to cars. Being able to transport several people is good, four is not bad. It is good to have a trunk in the car to put packages and strollers. It is better to allow people who have children to drive this vehicle. And so three seats, because you can’t put a child under 10 in the car, that means it’s restricted to families. In this dialogue between us and the responding companies. One of them, Bollor, won the market”She declared before greeting “A very good service and a great industrial enterprise”.

Four years later, in 2018, faced with Autolib’s financial failure, the Autolib’Velib’Metropole union decided to terminate the contract, starting a legal battle with Vincent Bolloré. In December 2023, the Paris Administrative Court finally rejected the Bolloré group’s 235 million compensation request.