Some people don't get it do they?
In a forum discussing parking spaces (parent & child/disabled) I commented
"After years of being just a normal 'parker', I am now experiencing ~some~ of the frustrations disabled people must feel.
I have hybrid vehicle that can be electrically charged, there are special bays with chargers at most services and probably to reduce cost of heavy cables they are often right outside the services door, even nearer than the disabled spots.
So you can guess they attract all the usual lazy souls that are perfectly able but need to save 10 yards on the way to getting the next portion of KFC, or the sales reps who think their precious cars will be dinged unless in an 30 foot exclusion zone and so on.
Despite being heavily hatched, signed and warnings of £100 penalty for improper use they still do it, there are only 2 special spaces typically and I need it, the cable isn't long enough to reach a normal bay!!"
I got this response...
"I share this frustration, but as a hybrid driver you do have the option of using fossil fuel. Unfortunately, whenever I reach a services in my pure EV, there's normally an Outlander PHEV in the spaces, topping up its tiny battery for half an hour or more, leaving those of us who actually do *need* the electrons, and hence the space, to wait."
??? why the hell would you buy a plug in hybrid to only drive around on petrol???
I have seen similar posts on the web from 'pure' EV drivers who think that they are a higher form of life because they alone are saving the planet and PHEV drivers are traitors, I suspect the sour grapes is before the PHEV they had a nice little network all to themselves but its been such a massive success the network is used a lot more now.
That said, no EV driver has ever been miserable to my face, or pushy or impatient and perfectly friendly.
In a forum discussing parking spaces (parent & child/disabled) I commented
"After years of being just a normal 'parker', I am now experiencing ~some~ of the frustrations disabled people must feel.
I have hybrid vehicle that can be electrically charged, there are special bays with chargers at most services and probably to reduce cost of heavy cables they are often right outside the services door, even nearer than the disabled spots.
So you can guess they attract all the usual lazy souls that are perfectly able but need to save 10 yards on the way to getting the next portion of KFC, or the sales reps who think their precious cars will be dinged unless in an 30 foot exclusion zone and so on.
Despite being heavily hatched, signed and warnings of £100 penalty for improper use they still do it, there are only 2 special spaces typically and I need it, the cable isn't long enough to reach a normal bay!!"
I got this response...
"I share this frustration, but as a hybrid driver you do have the option of using fossil fuel. Unfortunately, whenever I reach a services in my pure EV, there's normally an Outlander PHEV in the spaces, topping up its tiny battery for half an hour or more, leaving those of us who actually do *need* the electrons, and hence the space, to wait."
??? why the hell would you buy a plug in hybrid to only drive around on petrol???
I have seen similar posts on the web from 'pure' EV drivers who think that they are a higher form of life because they alone are saving the planet and PHEV drivers are traitors, I suspect the sour grapes is before the PHEV they had a nice little network all to themselves but its been such a massive success the network is used a lot more now.
That said, no EV driver has ever been miserable to my face, or pushy or impatient and perfectly friendly.