(FILES) Visitors look at a BMW i7 xDrive electric car presented at the Paris Motor Show at Paris Expo, Porte de Versailles in Paris on October 15, 2024. New electric car sales in France jumped 48 percent year-on-year in the first four months of the year to 148,302 units, even as the broader automotive market struggled, the automotive industry body PFA, which represents all carmakers, said on May 1, 2026. (Photo by Dimitar DILKOFF / AFP via Getty Images)