Heat wave – stay lit will cost you very expensive

While the Mercury panicked at the beginning of July 2025, all the methods to find expenses are good. Almost all. If you have a car, you are probably like thousands of other French people not to cut contact during a parking lot, even in short, in order to be able to continue to take advantage of air conditioning. However, there are very concrete reasons not to do this anymore and cut your engine immediately.

Engine on during parking, what the law says

First of all, the issue of ecology is obvious. Less an engine runs, the less it pollutes the planet. The received idea that cutting up and turning on an engine consumes more than leaving it to turn to the stop is also false, in any case for stops greater than 20 seconds. If you park to wait for someone, make a bakery or other leap, cutting your engine is therefore largely preferable for the environment.

This practice is also a good idea for your finances. Not only does it avoid consuming fuel for nothing, but above all it protects you from the law. Indeed, since the publication of a Order on November 12, 1963letting its engine work when you are parked is punished by law.

Article 2, which does not take without surprise (yet?) In account electric vehicles, since the decree is interested in exhaust gases, indicates: “Parking vehicles must have their engine stopped, except if necessary, especially during cold starts.“Do not comply with this exposes the driver to receive a class 4 fine, or € 135. In 2022, just over 4,000 contraventions of this kind were drawn up.