The medieval villages perched above France’s Côte d’Azur are an unlikely setting for one of Europe’s latest experiments in expanding the use of electric vehicles.
But a car-sharing scheme launched last year has become a hit with residents of their cobblestoned lanes, including some sceptical first-time users — the type of customers carmakers need to court as their EV sales stutter.
“People have a lot of misgivings at first. Then after five minutes that’s all forgotten,” said the programme’s local manager Clarisse Savorat on a recent afternoon in Fayence, where one of its cars was parked below a shady esplanade full of elderly pétanque players.
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