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Bonus Écologique Scooter Electrique : Le Guide

bonus ecologique scooter electrique

Bonus écologique et scooter électrique: Le point

Avec la pandémie covid-19, chacun veut consommer et se déplacer de manière plus responsable. Même les politiques s’y mettent, et les voies provisoires dédiées aux 2 roues mises en place durant la pandémie ont de grande chance de devenir permanentes. Une situation idéale pour les scooters électriques qui ont vu leur présence augmenter ces dernières années, d’autant plus qu’un Bonus Ecologique leur est dédié.

Bonus écologique scooter électrique: qu’est-ce que c’est? A quel montant as-tu droit? Quels scooters sont concernés?

Le Bonus écologique est apparu en 2017 pour favoriser l’accès à l’achat de véhicules électriques. Il s’agit d’une aide monétaire versée pour l’achat d’un véhicule électrique.  Le bonus s’applique aussi bien aux voitures qu’aux deux roues, vélos électriques inclus! On zoom aujourd’hui sur les particularités concernant les scooters électriques.

La Puissance du Scooter

Selon les modèles de scooter, la batterie n’a pas la même puissance. Dans le cas du bonus écologique, on différencie les batteries de moins de 3000W et celles de plus de 3000W.

Batterie de Moins de 3000 Watts

Les scooters ayant une puissance inférieure à 3000 Watts sont éligibles à un bonus écologique de maximum 100€. Ce bonus est plafonné à 20% du prix TTC.

Pour faire simple, si tu achètes une trottinette électrique à 400€ par exemple, le bonus s’élèvera à 80€ (400*0,2)

Et si tu achètes un NIU MQi+ sport doté d’une puissance de 1400 W, tu bénéficieras d’un bonus écologique de 100€.

 

Batterie de Plus de 3000 Watts

Si ton scooter a une puissance égale ou supérieure à 3000W, le bonus écologique est plus important, mais le calcul plus difficile. Note également qu’un scooter de plus de 3000W est sûrement un équivalent 125cc, qui nécessite un permis.

Le bonus écologique se calcule ici de la manière suivante :

– 250€ par tranche de 1000 Watts
– Avec un maximum de 900€
– Et un maximum de 27% du prix TTC

Pour exemple, un NQI GT d’une puissance de 3500 Watts bénéficiera d’un bonus de 750€. Ce montant est bien inférieur à 900€, et à 1347€ (soit 27% de 4990€).

Bonus Écologique Scooter Électrique & Batterie

Attention! Acheter un scooter électrique n’est pas l’unique critère pour pouvoir bénéficier de la prime écologique.

Pour pouvoir bénéficier du bonus écologique scooter électrique, le scooter doit être neuf, acheté après janvier 2017, électrique (et non hybride) et ne pas avoir de batterie en plomb.

Les scooters électriques ont en effets différents types de batterie. Celles en lithium-ion et en plomb sont entre autre les plus commercialisées. Attention donc à bien choisir une batterie si possible en Lithium-ion sous peine de rater la prime écologique.

Opter pour une batterie de marque reconnue pour sa qualité (Panasonic, LG…) est également important. Tous les scooters NIU sont dotés de batteries Panasonic au Lithium-ion, et éligibles au bonus écologique.

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Electric scooter charging

Bonus écologique scooter électrique : Primes locales Cumulables

Le bonus écologique national pour véhicules électriques est cumulable avec d’autres aides locales.

Ville de Paris

Tous les particuliers qui achètent un scooter électrique sont éligibles à une prime écologique de 400€. Attention, le scooter en question doit être doté d’une batterie lithium et ne pas dépasser les 45 km/h , comme le NIU MQi+.

Le montant maximale de la prime est fixé à 33% du prix d’achat HT.

Ville de Nice

Une prime d’un montant de 25% du prix TTC du scooter peut être demandé. Son montant maximale est de 200€.

 

Une Prime Cumulable pour Professionnels

Depuis mars 2018, la région île de France propose une prime écologique cumulable avec le bonus écologique national.

D’un montant de 1500€, la prime peut concerner jusqu’à 5 véhicules professionnels, sans dépasser 70% du prix HT de chacun d’eux.

Sont concernés les scooters dont la puissance est inférieure ou égale à 10 000 Watts. Ce qui laisse la porte ouverte à un large choix de scooters.

Cette prime est destinée à toute entreprise disposant d’un numéro de SIRET qui respecte les conditions suivantes:

– Exister depuis un an minimum
– Être localisé en Île de France
– Avoir moins de 50 salariés
– Avoir un chiffre d’affaire inférieur à €1million

Attention! Une fois la prime écologique professionnelle versée, il n’est pas possible de revendre le véhicule pendant 2 ans sous peine de se la voir réclamée.

Bonus Écologique Scooter Électrique : Comment Faire la Demande?

Option 1: Obtenir une Réduction du Prix d’Achat

Le vendeur peut tout à fait souscrire le montant de la prime du prix de vente. Dans ce cas, c’est lui qui recevra le montant du bonus écologique.

Tous ne le font pas forcément. Renseigne toi auprès de ton concessionnaire local si cette option t’intéresse.

Option 2: Recevoir la Prime après l’Achat

Une fois ton deux roues acheté, direction le site de l’ASP (Agence de service et de paiement) pour effectuer ta demande de bonus écologique.

 

Et voilà, tu sais maintenant tout sur le fonctionnement du bonus écologique scooter électrique et des primes cumulables! Je te conseille de te renseigner également auprès de ta ville, si différente de Paris. Tu pourrais avoir droit à une prime locale cumulable que je n’ai pas cité!

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Impacts of Coronavirus on Tourism: What can the industry expect?

 

From 2012 to 2019, Chinese travellers were multiplied by 10. Chinese tourism is growing very fast and becomes more and more lucrative. If a Chinese tourist spent in average $1834 in each outbound journey in 2019, international expenditures of chinese tourists are booming. They were estimated at $43,7 billion US Dollars in 2009 and reached $277 billion in 2018.

The Chinese New Year (CNY) is one of the most important periods for the tourism industry. In 2019, it represented 10% of the total tourism year spending. Each year, the travel market during CNY is growing both in spending and number of people.

chinese tourim infographic

 

But in 2020, the coronavirus disturbed these trends. The coronavirus appeared just before the CNY and made thousands of people change their travel plan. This change was voluntary for the majority, who decided to follow the government recommendations and stayed at home. But other had also to cancel their trip due to travel bans.

Travel bans

British Airways, Air France… several companies started to cancel flights from China. Then, countries such as The Philippines, Vietnam or India banned entry on residents of China and foreign nationals who have visited China.

The week following these restrictions, Chinese arrivals in Asia Pacific Countries (APAC) dropped by 15% and by 22,5% in Americas.

 

Restrictions

In mainland China, hotel rooms occupancy decreased by 75% over two weeks. If this drop can be explained by travellers who cancelled their trip, it is also due to hotels themselves who decided to close their doors.

Currently, 150 Hilton hotels, for a total of 33000 rooms, are closed in mainland China.

In addition, hotels outside China started to refuse Chinese nationals forcing the travellers to find another accommodation.

But Chinese tourists are not only restricted by the choice of their accommodation in these times. Abroad, announces indicating that Chinese are not welcomed appeared at the entrance of markets, shops and restaurants.

chinese ban in restaurant
Chinese ban in a restaurant

In this tense context, finding hotels and activities as a Chinese without being linked to the virus is complicated. If Chinese people want to fully enjoy their holidays, they should probably plan to postpone them.

Outbound tourism revenue drop

Thailand is the first destination for Chinese outbound tourism. The country stands to lose $3.4 billion in tourism revenue this year, if the virus outbreak lasts to summer.

The Maldives, one of the favourite destinations for chinese luxury tourism, expect a drop of 30% in tourists arrival. It may lead to a $540 million of loss in revenue for hotels.

In the US, experts plan a drop of 4.6 million hotel rooms nights.

 

What can we expect in the following months?

A report published last week by Re-Hub & Zectr divided Tier 1 cities consumers into four categories and asked them their future intention to buy with the virus context.

The four categories are the following:

  • Silver foxes: retired males, well-educated but with low income
  • Tasteful cosmopolitans: Skew older with highest income than other segments
  • Fashion- forward moms : fit in with popular trends
  • Young professionals: well-educated and mobile young white collars

Moreover, the report imagines three different scenarios in the future: the Optimistic one with a reduction of the number of cases at the end of February, the Base one with a recovery in may and the Pessimistic case with an increasing growth of cases.

For Silver foxes in a pessimistic scenario, the travel budget for the next 3 months is cut by 46% comparing to last year.

Young professionals, who are the most likely to travel, will increase their travel budget by 4% in the Optimistic scenario. However, the travel budget decreases in the Base scenario (by 13%) and the Pessimistic one (by 17%).

budget forecast of chinese with coronavirus
Young professionals budget forecast in 3 virus scenarios

To sum up the travel industry will be strongly hit by the coronavirus in the short term and it has already started. But Chinese travellers may save their current travel budget, and plan to travel later with a higher one. In the long term, this hypothesis may reduces the impacts of the coronavirus on tourism.

Sources :

McKinsey & Company, Coronavirus COVID-19 Crisis Response, February 14th2020

McKinsey, Travel and Tourism Market in China, November 2019

Re-Hub & Zectr, Consumers in Crisis, Understanding the Effect of the Coronavirus on Chinese Consumers, Insights from Machine Learning, February 2020.

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Augmented Reality Business China FrenchTech Marketing Shanghai Start-up

Starting a company in Shanghai: The interview of Romain, co-funder of EEXAR

Starting a company in Shanghai: The interview of Romain, co-founder of EEXAR

    At only 24 years-old, Romain Dessain-Gelinet left France to start his Augmented Reality company in Shanghai with his co-founder Nicolas Letendrie. The start-up called EEXAR was initially a student project. Ex-student from a French Business School, Romain explains why Nicolas and him decided to start their company in China rather than in France.

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Transcripts of the interview

– Hello Romain

– Hello Sarah

– You are the co-founder of EEXAR. Could you please present your company?

– So in a few words, EEXAR is an Augmented Reality Company. What we do is we develop the vanguard sales. Basically we equip every salesman with a tablet and AR glasses to improve the sales process from product presentations to the final quotation.

– Why did you choose this name?

– Actually we were called “Rocket & AR” before. It started as a student project for a year but we found out that it was quite a chillish name. Especially the logo were kind of childish. So we went through an all design thinking for finding the new name. It did not work and at the end we just had the co-founder Nicolas who typed EEXAR on internet, found that is was an available domain name and it sounds nice. There is ” XAR” in the name which is “extended reality” and we go for Enterprise Experience and Augmented Reality.

 

Starting a company in shanghai : EEXAR

– Why did you make the choice to set up your business in Shanghai?

– So as I said before it was a student project so we were pitching this project in France. But I was doing my internship in China for my last year so I was also pitching the project here. And we had like two difficulties in France. In France people are telling us “It’s a good idea”. In China they are telling us “It’s a good idea, when do you start?” So we decided to be in here instead of France.

– Because you had more contacts, more people that encouraged you?

– We have our contacts, my network was well-developped here because I had a year and a half of internship before. The community in Shanghai is like as soon as you are starting something they all want to be part of it. And the second thing is technology adoption. People here are willing to try new things.

– So, do you speak chinese?

– Ting bu dong (“Je ne comprends pas”, en chinois)

– Did you know how to set up a business in China before to come here?

“Actually, starting a company is not that hard”

– No I didn’t. Actually I came here, the last time was for a 6 months internship, and my goal was to fundraise 1.5 million dollars for a company. I was thinking “Actually, starting a company is not that hard, because fund raising is close to start a company : the projection, the pitching… And I was like “ok, just do it!”

– Ok, that’s a lot of courage. So, do you have investors, and if you have, where did you find them?

– Currently, we don’t have any investor in our company. We are “Bootstrap“; that means our clients fund us for the project we do for them. However, we do need fundraising to play faster cause we want to have a full software ready by the middle of next year instead of 3 years from now. So we have some investors, Business Angels we are talking to, to fundraise 200 000 dollars. It is a long process, your project needs to be perfine, you have an idea you pitch in the front line.

– Which type of visa did you have when you arrived?

-Tourist Visa. The story is I heard about a program with the chinese government called the entrepreneurship Visa. The fact is you arrive here with a tourist Visa and then you transfer it into an entrepreneurship Visa if you are qualified. We were recommended by an incubator called “K-tech“ but at the end we had this Visa. It is like a resident permit for one year.

– So now you have the entrepreneur Visa?

“The entrepreneurship Visa allows you to stay in China, but not to get paid.”

– I have it and now we are switching to working Visa, because the entrepreneurship Visa allows you to stay in China, but not to get paid. So even if you have a company and you are making profit, you can’t get money from it with this kind of Visa.

– That’s difficult thus, how can you survive? Did you receive any help?

– A lot, it is not like in France. Actually if you start in France for example you will just have financial help mostly and you will get 50 000€ if you want for your company, free of charge. It is pretty good. However, if you start there having clients is pretty complicated because in France they require that you have a background, a great team, other used cases.

It is not the case in Shanghai, you have a team, you have a prototype, technology is working so we go for it. We decided to use that so the help we had was mainly from the community who connected us with people who needed our technology and also told us how to develop our business in Shanghai.

– Do you have kind of a PEPITE ? You know in France we have PEPITE in Business School and IAE. Have you heard about it?

– I was a PEPITE actually in France, in Rennes, for an another project. For consulting and transformation technology between France and China. However there was a few support. It was good for connecting us with other entrepreneurs, but few added value for your own project.

And right now the PEPITE in Shanghai is the French Tech PEPITE and it’s a completely different environment. Here they push you to investors they push you to pitch or to clients. This is a way more worth the time in the company than in France.

– Maybe it is more professional and less scholar?

– Exactly.

Startign a company in shanghai: augmented realty helmet

– How do you advertise your company in China?

“If someone knows us, he will tell the rest.”

– Basically we don’t. The fact is we work in B to B, so we don’t believe in marketing automation yet. What we do is talk to people, then refer us and that’s how we advertise. Because everyone is connected here and work with international companies. So if someone knows us, he will tell the rest.

– So this is World of Mouth.

– Exactly.

– Are you in chinese social media?

– No, I mean we are in Wechat. Mainly what we do is to advertise our success. For example we won this prize or we pitched there. It is good enough to show people we are existing but it does not bring leads. But I guess Wechat and Weibo are great in marketing. It could help us a lot if we were in a more advanced step.

– Do you think about doing it later?

– That is of course a plan , for sure.

– What are the important points you learnt until now?

“Better do than think. […] At least we have someting to show to other people.”

– Better do than think, definitely. I have started with 3 other entrepreneurs, we all got the entrepreneur Visa. So we were 4 starting, and today I am the only one left.

Because those three, they had good projects basis but they did not invest and try prototypes, and work on it. They were just pitching and fund raising. And they died out of cash flow. Instead of us, we were “ok, we have a link here, we develop right now because at least we have something to show to other people”.

– Thank you Romain.

– Thank you Sarah.

Starting a company in Shanghai : 10 Takeways

  • Choose a clear name with an available domain name for your website
  • Find an incubator to help you for the Visa requirements
  • Be aware you will not earn money with the entrepreneurship Visa
  • Be ready to pitch
  • Develop your network
  • Involve the Shanghai community in your project
  • Never stop looking for investors
  • Get closer to The French Tech Shanghai
  • Talk about the development of your company in social media
  • Better do than think