As I have no personal experience with this, I asked someone that I knew had just completed an extensive trip to Provence focusing on small villages in the Luberon. Take the below advice with a grain of salt. I discovered that electric cars are better for keeping at home to toot around town, short distances, doing errands, where you have a charger at home. EVs are not good for extensive travel in a foreign country, for a condensed period of time where every hour and even minute is precious.
Absolutely, positively do not rent an EV in Provence for vacation unless your French is excellent. My French is superb and I still had a massively difficult time. You will want to speak French for reading the charging station instructions and most importantly, asking for help from fellow car chargers that you might see at the charging stations.
Rental car company may leave you with the impression that it will be super easy to deal with your EV. Do not believe them. In my experience, none of the many charging station map apps available and I tried them all were helpful in Provence.
I was counting on charging my car at a charging station supposedly walking distance from Les Baux de Provence. In fact, when I got there, I learned that the charging station did not exist. The parking attendant told me that he had met others who had encountered the same mystery.
The charging apps make it seem like there are more charging stations than there actually are. I found that charging stations in Provence were not numerous and always out of the way. If you are going to go ahead and rent an EV anyway, large grocery stores like Aldi or the French version of Costco are good places to try.
