Esteban Da Silva and Erwan Lecamp take their place in Renault’s 100% electric Megan E-tech. At the wheel, Jordan Deguet, from the Simonneau dealership.
The salesman is almost as young as the two Isat students.
Three boys somewhat nostalgic for the “golden age” of the thermal car, who realize that they have to take a turn.
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Everyone agrees: the car remains above all an object of pleasure and an instrument of a certain freedom. “I like when it makes noise. This one doesn’t go “vroum vroum”,” laughs Erwan, “it’s too sanitized. And it lacks the “happiness stick”. Translation: the electric car is silent and has no gearbox.
Esteban, on the other hand, is more reluctant on the technology itself. “I think we don’t have enough perspective. On the production of batteries in particular. On their recycling…”.
Answer questions regarding electric vehicles
These students, who are destined to be engineers in the automotive and transport world, were among the “targets” of the organizers of this “discovery” day, as were the high school students from Pierre-Bérégovoy.
Because the auto sector must be ready. From design to production. The end of thermal cars is still scheduled for 2035. “We are here to ensure that training is as suitable as possible”, says Ludivine Simonin, from the Campus des Métiers, at the origin of these moments of discovery with students and high school students. .
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While some of the “Isatians” were trying out the cars made available, the others were chatting, waiting their turn. The discussions were, quite logically, regarding electric cars. And all the received ideas, the brakes, the a priori, the reluctance they generate. Are they really ecological?? Is the end of oil really near? Why do they reduce CO2 emissions?
But where is the engine?
The questions of these young people essentially related to autonomy, recharging time… At Isat, as at the Pierre-Bérégovoy vocational school, the students were often quite ignorant regarding this new motorization.
“In fact, the questions are always the same”, underlined Jean-Marc Jacques, from the association Bourgogne-Franche-Comté Electric Mobility, which ensured the theoretical part, before the pupils took the wheel.
To reach and raise awareness among students, teachers and organizers therefore went through the “pleasure” phase. Thus, at the Pierre-Bérégovoy high school, an electric Ford Mustang was presented to dumbfounded students.
“But where is the engine?? », exclaimed a young man, his nose under the hood, noting that in the “traditional” place of the engine was a trunk for storage.
Adapt training, quickly
The step seems very high to cross so that these young people understand and adhere to the new motorizations. Didier Girard, deputy director of vocational training at the Bérégovoy high school, knows this very well: “Manufacturers are starting to produce electric cars, and young people must be employable”. Moreover, the school has reoriented its BTS, from BTS MCI “internal combustion engine” to BTS MTE “all-energy engine”.
The transition is underway. Erwan continues to test the electric Renault. Let yourself be surprised. Like his classmate, Esteban: “The power is delivered directly, you can feel it,” he says.
And to cover the silence of the engine, a solution: turn up the sound of the radio…
Laure Brunet
