" Starting in April, the government will pay a bonus of as much as 10,000 euros ($11,422) to consumers who buy an electric car to replace an old diesel vehicle, Energy Minister Segolene Royal said.
"We have to eliminate old diesel cars that are more than 13 years old and have no filters," Royal said. Measures against these types of polluting cars will make it "harder and harder" to use them, she said."
"Domestic carmakers PSA/Peugeot-Citroen and Renault are among European automakers that market new diesel-powered vehicles as environmentally friendly because they can get more miles to the gallon than gasoline-fueled vehicles and are less polluting than older models."