Mr. Fabian Küster:

The fact that e-bikes are missing from the climate action plan was pretty much the point of my intervention. I totally agree. A balanced electric mobility strategy is not to be found in this plan. One of its objectives is to have more than 900,000 e-vehicles on the road by 2030, but there is not a single word in the plan about e-bikes. That is a missed opportunity. In my intervention I spoke about the fiscal incentives given in various member states. In France, for example, there is a subsidy of €200 for the purchase of e-bikes. That had a very positive effect on sales figures in France. Some 61% of these new e-bike trips replaced car trips. I assume the French authorities will be able to calculate the amount of CO2 this has saved, but I do not have that figure right now.