Another disadvantage, repairing an electric motor requires additional training. These vehicles represent 2% of the market, but their share is growing, so more and more mechanics are returning to class. On the program, learn how to cut the current of a vehicle. No more dirty hands, today they have to handle high voltage electric batteries. Which has nothing to do with the usual mechanics. Kevin Morvan, trainee mechanic in a training center, is a little disturbed. “You really have to secure the electrical part, suddenly, there are a lot more dangers compared to a thermal car. It’s a car of the future, you have to do well with it”he admits, fatalistic.
Some even bet on it. In Baillargues (Hérault), Sébastien Pons, co-manager of the “Limitless work shop” garage, has made electricity his specialty, and it works. “We have a lot of people who come from all over France, from the Paris region, from Lyon, from Carcassonne, there are people who come from far away because we are not very much in France”, he says. In the end, his garage is always full. “There, we have two vehicles with electrical breakdown”he says, certain that his garage has a future.
