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Was Sandra Bullock on the backseat?

EV chargers that need an app in an underground carpark with no mobile signal, you smashed it Waitrose Greenwich

Also Sainsbury's nine elms.

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Friday, 13th, I borrowed a friend's Fabia to run a few errands. Avoiding traffic, I turned off a main road and was briefly held up as a skip truck manouvred.
This caused me to read along the chassis: 'London's first battery powered skip loader'.
Didn't notice the name of the operator.

Parents Tesla has just ground to a halt, straddling chevrons on a peage route exit in the middle of nowhere in France.

Rear motor disabled apparently. They were given less than 10 seconds to find a space to stop.

Not looking forward to helping them deal with it remotely and hearing about it forever and ever.

Musk is a cunt thread >>>>>>>>>>

Nightmare. I recently saw one stranded, blocking the A36. Quite the lump to move. Wonder what/why. Good luck, hope your parents get home quickly and safely.

Bet you advised them to get it too! You'll never hear the end of it.

Be grateful it wasn't the parents in-law.

Currently sat in eurotunnel terminal to go and get them. Car has to be towed to Lille with an indeterminate fix time.

Hoping to get a 2am crossing back and be in bed for dawn.

And you'll be able to reply well I told yous to buy a diesel and not one of the cunt mobiles, I mean teslas.

Lexus every time, preferably the V6

Now in a deserted eurotunnel terminal having spent 20 minutes in France.

Waiting for my 2.18 crossing.

Just got home. 8 hours driving for less than 30 mins in France.

Tuesday night to forget.

Ouch. Well done for being the rescuer.

Hope you get some rest tonight.

Well done for being a dutiful son, but why didn't they use roadside assistance to pick them up and take them home/hotel?

İt could have been Stoke.

They were travelling back to the UK from their place which is near Toulouse. They were only 15 mins outside Calais when it broke down. They used roadside assistance to recover the car to the nearest garage for overnight storage but it's being towed to Lille today to be fixed so they don't want to be stuck there.

They have months worth of stuff in the car, not just a suitcase each so couldn't really train travel or move around easily with it.

Seemed easier to 'pop' across the channel, pick them up and repatriate them myself. Insurance company has already confirmed they'll reimburse the £220 tunnel cost.

I also think I jinxed it - hadn't spoken to them all day then at 18:08 I texted to ask how the journey was going and got a thumbs up. 18:21, the car broke.

I saw this story that EVs are also being targeted by the Tyre Extinguishers
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-67893216

Not surprised to be honest, some of the new EVs are pretty ludicrous in size and power. There's one of those Fisker's on my street and it's massive.

Bristol has to be one of the worst cities to drive around, if I lived there I'd never use a car, never mind something big/wide.

Main gripe is cars double parked for a few hundred meters which makes meeting a car coming the other way a right pain in the arse.

Not surprised to be honest, some of the new EVs are pretty ludicrous in size and power. There's one of those Fisker's on my street and it's massive.

3-tonne metal box is the new 1-tonne metal box.

Why do they whine so much

So you don't kill people. It's bad enough when you are ignored by foxes