The advantages of electric in everyday use

Despised by many detractors because of the constraints of use, the electric car still retains undeniable advantages in everyday life. So, let's try to draw up a list of the main of them.

The breakdown

If electric cars are not yet as reliable as hoped, they are still at a much higher level than thermal cars.
With a much smaller number of organs, and which are also relatively simple in design, driving in electric brings an undeniable additional serenity with respect to the thermal car. The fear of breakdown is less present, which can prove to be a big advantage for those who have had some trauma on this side in their past as a motorist.

Maintenance

A bit like the breakdown, the maintenance comes down to not much: tires, pads and emptying of the battery cooling circuit (when there is one). There will also be air conditioning refills for those who have a mid-range car that tends to lose a little refrigerant (which in theory should not happen in the case of a quality installation, more common among German women).

Parking

If long-term parking can become a stress as it is said in the article which deals with the shortcomings of electricity on a daily basis, with regard to the places available in the city center we can say that things are facilitated by the reserved places. electric cars (places equipped with refills of course...). If this is only temporary, it seems that this temporality will last a few more years, so it is interesting to take advantage of it by being one of the first electric car owners.

Refueling

If it is also considered a disadvantage, the refueling of an electric car does however have a major advantage... Indeed, you can refuel your electric car practically anywhere and without being dependent on a station. service (and therefore also the supply of the latter, which could sometimes be problematic when the truckers blocked the roads).
Concretely, this is characterized by a car that is always full, ready to offer all the autonomy it has to give (or almost, we will limit ourselves to 85% charge to maximize its lifespan). Alas, this table is less shiny for city dwellers who live in apartments, unless they have a parking space with a socket, of course, but I doubt this is the norm...

The icing on the cake, the cost of refueling is very modest even if on public chargers it becomes less and less gratifying. We are then left with only a few hundred euros of consumption for several tens of thousands of kilometers! Combined with the low cost of maintenance, here we minimize the cost of use in a colossal way (alas we lose it on the cost of acquisition, still too high on electric ones).

More serene driving

Driving an electric car makes you much calmer behind the wheel... And combined with the fact that you tend to preserve your battery in order to have greater autonomy, the speeding you will commit will be fewer. Of course, I am caricaturing here a little because to be fooled there is no longer any need to drive very fast, the limitations no longer being really consistent with the capacities of the machines at our disposal.
Finally, note that driving with a single pedal (regenerative brake) brings even more comfort and simplicity to driving (dodgem style), as does the increased autonomy in town which allows you to be much more rested and serene than on the road. the main axes.

Unparalleled silence

Beyond conferring a more relaxed and serene driving (as long as we omit the autonomy obviously ...), the fact of producing no noise allows both to walk in the countryside at low speed while hearing the birds but also to leave at night or early in the morning without waking anyone. This discretion very quickly becomes addictive and it reinforces the well-being of car rides in the regions you want to visit.