Electric Vehicles EVs

Are these things designed for slaughtering pedestrians?

And cyclists, yeah...

It's a bit of a wee man motor surely.. you're bigger than that!

Looks like every school kid's drawing of a car ever.

streetgoth electrifender. it's very you.

If Pixar did a defender

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Are you strong enough to push that?

Software in the eniro had a shitfit this morning and refused to connect to anything phone shaped. Quick call to the local dealer and their man is looking at it as we speak.

Pain in the neck but you can't argue with the quality of service.

Looks like it was made for an early 80s John Carpenter movie, very much my bag...

Jeez

London to wookey hole return in ID3 was fine , it was touch and go if it’d made it back ( I suspect not) so I popped in for 14 mins of Insta volt for £5.77 @60 off kw and made it home with 30 miles to spare .
I don’t think I touched a pedal from A 303 to end of M3 .
Great car , but above 70 mph eats range

‘46 Ford ready for testing and programming. It has two Netgain Hyper9 motors and a Torque Trends reduction box driving the rear wheels. 66kWh of batteries in two packs; one under the bonnet, one under the rear deck. It’s quite fast and really smooth. Makes a nice whirring sound as well, subdued but not totally quiet. Of all the cars that have been at the shop the past few months this is the one I’d like to daily.

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That's awesome

OK, I'll take that electro-ute instead...

Just realised that EVs have only one gear and they slow down when you stop pedalling.

EVs are Fixie!

All cars slow down with the engine so are multi-speed fixed gear.

Apart from two-strokes like the Trabant which have a freewheel on some gears to avoid destroying the engine while coasting, because no fuel used = no lubrication.

Anyone else getting strong smugness feelings?

plenty of salt in the news thread.

🤡🙅‍♀️

Just driven to Birmingham for a night football game - loads of queues everywhere for fuel stations. Super smug obvs.

sucks for people feeling like they have to queue for dinojuice but i'm not gonna be made to feel like a cunt for driving an EV. fuck that noise.

fuck that noise.

+100

I need to go up to Watford and back today, so I’ve rented a Zoe (or a leaf - can’t remember which, they’re the same though I think?). Anyway. Expectations now raised that I’ll be the only vehicle on the M1 for that zombie apocalypse vibe

EVs are the latest toy for compulsive consumption.

Such a brave and nuanced take. You’re clearly some kind of 21st century Nostradamus.

Maybe we should get fridge magnets made up?