I hope you laid on the pavement with ketchup on your head! LolJust encountered my first EV person with extension lead stretched over the pavement charging their battery Hyundai thing. Expect lots more of this stupidity.
And how many times have you seen pedestrians unable to walk on a path because of parked cars.Just encountered my first EV person with extension lead stretched over the pavement charging their battery Hyundai thing. Expect lots more of this stupidity.
True! There are just too many cars on the road though, aren't there? Why not ban all city cars and turn the pavements into airport style travelators?
Or have efficient public transport so individual vehicles aren't needed for everyone.
Just encountered my first EV person with extension lead stretched over the pavement charging their battery Hyundai thing. Expect lots more of this stupidity.
Yeah yeah yeah.No, not reserved, but it seems far more likely with some who have rushed into new technology without thinking.
Someone parks their car out in the road with an extension cable across their garden and then across the pavement (as was the case yesterday) - they are making a hazard for everyone that uses the pavement. Also, once again, that someone has rushed into EV ownership without considering the practicalities. But at least they appear green (this obviously has more than one meaning).
This car was parked in the road around the corner from my father's rental flat, the same flat where a next door EV owning tenant trespassed on his forecourt with his EV so he could get close enough to reach his cable through his front window. The EV owner seemed surprised that I wasn't happy about his EV being there, 2 feet from our front door - and said he only needed to do this for a few hours once a week.
The stupidity of these EV owners and the sense of entitlement does not bode well. Imagine in years to come when the majority have been forced to use battery cars - with cables stretched across every pavement and people parking wherever they can to be near a power source. This will become reality here in Bristol, because there is high density housing, high car ownership and a high proportion of housing without private parking. This hasn't been thought through at all.
I'm one of those for whom an EV would make perfect sense - I hardly ever do long journeys in a day. In fact I really can't remember the last time I would not have been able to finish my day's driving without refuelling if I'd begun the day with a full tank. Which of course is the equivalence if you charge an EV at home.
But for now I'm happy with my petrol vehicle. I do a low mileage, so I'm not desperately worried about GHG emissions, and there are no diseasel particulates. In fact I wonder, given my low mileage, how long it would take to break-even on all the embedded emissions from producing a new EV.
Plus, were I to swap, there's no way that my car (sub-100K miles Merc) would get scrapped (or at least I hope it wouldn't), so it would almost certainly end up being driven further than I do, which tips the break-even point further.
Maybe the govt should be subsidising low-mileage drivers to take on the ownership of ICEVs...
And all done without music, hyperbole, gurning....
Same with Harry's Garage, and another YT channel I can recommend is Tyrell's Classic Workshop. (Although sadly he does seem to have now taken up gurning on his thumbnails).
I've sometimes thought that one of these:
turned into a 4-door 4/5 seater, with the back made into a pickup bed would be a nice versatile vehicle.
Someone parks their car out in the road with an extension cable across their garden and then across the pavement (as was the case yesterday) - they are making a hazard for everyone that uses the pavement. Also, once again, that someone has rushed into EV ownership without considering the practicalities. But at least they appear green (this obviously has more than one meaning).
This car was parked in the road around the corner from my father's rental flat, the same flat where a next door EV owning tenant trespassed on his forecourt with his EV so he could get close enough to reach his cable through his front window. The EV owner seemed surprised that I wasn't happy about his EV being there, 2 feet from our front door - and said he only needed to do this for a few hours once a week.
The stupidity of these EV owners and the sense of entitlement does not bode well. Imagine in years to come when the majority have been forced to use battery cars - with cables stretched across every pavement and people parking wherever they can to be near a power source. This will become reality here in Bristol, because there is high density housing, high car ownership and a high proportion of housing without private parking. This hasn't been thought through at all.
