The shop number 1 for car parts without a license
The French company Aixam expects stable sales this year, a minor miracle in the current climate. Licence-free cars seem to be benefiting from a boom in personal mobility in the wake of the covid-19 pandemic.
It's a niche that seems to be more resistant to the crisis than the automotive industry as a whole: licence-free cars. In 2021, the PSV industry expects relatively stable sales, while sales of new passenger cars in France are already down by 25-30%.
However, the figures are very different. According to data provided by AAA Data, 13,415 non-licensed cars were registered in France last year, and over 2.2 million "licensed" cars were sold.
Philippe Colançon, owner d'Aixamthe trend is clearly positive, given the year we've just had.
The French company, which bills itself as the European leader in licence-free cars, produced 12,500 of them last year, half of them in France and half in other European countries. Like bicycles and scooters, licence-free cars also seem to be contributing to the decline in the use of public transport.
The head ofAixam went on to say that, with the pandemic, personal mobility is particularly attractive. This complements the social role of the licence-free car, which enables many French people to get around on a daily basis, and its safety role, by offering many young French people a safer mobility solution than a scooter from the age of 14.
The company resumed production on April 24 with the first delivery, after six weeks' closure of its Essam, Aix-les-Bains (Sava) and Chanas (Isère) plants in France, in response to strong demand in early June. Sales rose by 23% year-on-year between July and September.
We just launched a new collection just before the pandemic, so we were able to take advantage of the "novelty effect", explained Mr. Colançon, to justify this post-confinement success.
But this situation also concerns other major brands on the market, such as Microcar, Ligier or Chatenet. For example, from January 2021 to the end of October 2021, AAA Data recorded 11,219 VSP registrations in mainland France, an increase of around 100 on the same period last year.
Carts are thus characteristic of France, which accounts for approximately 90% of production in Europe. This is a global market based on national regulations. In France, only those born after 1988 require an AM license (formerly the road safety certificate). Italy has tightened its regulations, leading to a sharp drop in sales.
In France, this means that this form of mobility can be used by a wide variety of people: those who have not yet reached driving age or those who have never had a driving license.
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