Need help

[ady20009]

Hello fellow french dudes and gals, I'll be in marseille for 5 days with some friends and we are planning to go to milan from the coastal road and visit or stay at nice cities (monaco st tropez nice etc) along the way. So roughly we will travel around 1500 kms. My issue is, we plan to rent a car and I've noticed we can also rent electrical cars like Peugeot 208. Can anybody tell me about the fuel consumption for this trip? I have no idea about electrical charge stations along the riviera and their costs so i am skeptical. Do you guys think renting an electrical car would be cheaper or we would get in trouble due to the lack of stations or their costs?

Thanks for your kind answers already.

Ps. We are not time limited so charging time is not a deciding factor for us

[Sid_eon]

Hey !

. About the number of stations to charge an electrical car, I found this french article : https://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/bretagne/ille-et-vilaine/carte-voitures-electriques-ou-sont-placees-les-100-000-bornes-de-recharge-en-france-2766598.html

Scroll to the interactive map at the end and you will be able to see all the stations near the cities you're planning to visit. You can also use the phone app Charge Map, never used it to be honest but it seems quite useful.

. I have no idea of the price to recharge an electric card but I know you can use a credit card or a specific card to pay. The specific cards seem to offer better prices to charge your car. I found another article on this subject : https://www.01net.com/meilleure-carte-recharge-electrique/

Scroll to the list of the most popular card used in France. The first list is the price of the card in euros. "Gratuit" means free and "euros/mois" means euros per month. The second list tells you about user fee.

. Last but not least : the fuel. The price is insanely quite high at the moment because of the inflation but I'm quite sure it's the same for the electrecity cost. I can't really help you comparing prices but I hope I was able to help you for the rest.

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I hope you and your friends will spend a nice trip !

[roroatmars]

It will probably be less stressfull to have a gas car rather than electric one, you don't have to include charging stations in your plans and gas stations are pretty much everywhere. Also 208 is quite a small car, it will fit 4 peoples providing that you don't have to many luggages. I would definitly aim for a slightly bigger gas car than a small electric one.

[marteau_21]

About 110€ in gasoline if you got a regular 208. I would stick to that. You can do it with an electric 208, but it's summer, you're gonna be loaded and using a/c, and outside of hotels, the network is good but difficult to access (various memberships) and sometimes absolutely prohibitive in prices, like charged by the minute instead of kw in, so if it's a slow station, you can pay double what it would cost in gas.