Background record: France’s Jacky Perrenot Group received its first MAN eTGX in April 2025 — one of the earliest electric-tractor deployments by a large French family-owned logistics group, complementing its earlier eTGS units and the group’s alternative-energy strategy (which has included CNG at scale).

The Perrenot case matters precisely because it’s not Amazon or Schenker: a 5,000-vehicle family group electrifying carefully, one tractor at a time, on French incentive economics — suramortissement tax treatment and ADEME calls rather than a Dutch-style grant or a CO₂-graded toll, because France still lacks the latter (the gap our France guide flags as the market’s central weakness).

France is the EU’s third-largest e-truck market (1,713 registrations in 2025) but grows on contracts and tax logic rather than on a lever as strong as its neighbours’. The Perrenot trajectory — first tractor in 2025, Renault Trucks E-Tech options expanding with the T 780’s 660 km — is the template for how French family logistics groups will electrify through the decade’s second half: steadily, segment by segment, once the business case is proven by others.