Refueling is now very expensive in France, except for drivers of electric cars

Fueling up has never been so expensive. This is the bitter observation of the owners of some 40 million private cars circulating in France today, and must today face the surge in fuel prices against a backdrop of conflict in the Middle East. Except for 3% of them: these even seem to be doing well, very happy to have made the choice to drive an electric car. This preference “imposed itself” on Camille a little less than five years ago. “I drive almost 200 km round trip per day to get to work. The choice was quickly made,” explains this Breton doctor, who lives in Finistère, more than an hour’s drive from his place of work, located in Côtes-d’Armor.

Without foreshadowing for a single moment that the war in Iran would break out last February, blocking the Strait of Hormuz and driving prices at the pump to unprecedented levels, he assures him that above all he wanted to “make an ecological gesture”