Autonomous and electric cars to be key part of autos sector: Macron

PARIS (Reuters) – Autonomous vehicles and electric vehicles will form a key part of the automotive sector after the coronavirus crisis, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday.

Macron, speaking after a visit to a Valeo car parts factory in northern France, also said that no car model currently produced in France should be manufactured in other countries.

(Reporting by Michel Rose, Gilles Guillaume, Sudip Kar-Gupta and Benoit Van Overstraeten; Writing by Matthieu Protard; Editing by David Goodman)