Electric Vehicles: What have you spotted?

[CitroJim]

That was lovely Steve restores your faith in people...

When Robyn had a Clio I found it very claustrophobic... The all-black interior didn't help...

I've done the same with Aussies and South Africans - unforgivable in my case; having spent considerable time in both countries and having many South African friends...

Usually, they're OK about it... Just be careful about Aussies and Kiwis Almost as bad as remarking that the North Welsh accent, when they speak English, sounds a bit like a Scouse accent. I did once and only just escaped with my life

[myglaren]

She was quite OK with it. I do struggle a bit with accents and often can't follow what people local to me are saying (Geordies & Mackams). Often need subtitles for Scots. Kevin Bacon Kevin Bridges (they are all the same) was on iPlayer a couple of weeks ago and incomprehensible to me and the subtitles were all over the place too.

[CitroJim]

I have loads of trouble with Scottish Steve... Geordies no problem as I spent a lot of my life working with several; I many not speak it fluently but have a full understanding... I love the Geordie accent

The Scottish dialect is is another matter, despite working with and knowing many I've never got my ears around it. People tell me Billy Connolly is a very funny comedian. I'm sure he is but his speech, to me, is totally incomprehensible - He'd may as well be speaking Chinese as far as my ears are concerned...

And spoken jokes don't' really work with subtitles...

[myglaren]

Odd that as he is no problem whatsoever.
Perhaps he enunciates better than some of his fellow Scots.

[CitroJim]

Even red does not improve the looks of a fugly old Muskmobile although it does have a rather cool plate

Amazing what you come across when out running...

[Gibbo2286]

I have loads of trouble with Scottish Steve... Geordies no problem as I spent a lot of my life working with several; I many not speak it fluently but have a full understanding... I love the Geordie accent

The Scottish dialect is is another matter, despite working with and knowing many I've never got my ears around it. People tell me Billy Connolly is a very funny comedian. I'm sure he is but his speech, to me, is totally incomprehensible - He'd may as well be speaking Chinese as far as my ears are concerned...

And spoken jokes don't' really work with subtitles...

Imagine the plight of Indian students, taught in university English to graduate level then in their first job as call centre operator they encounter a bad tempered Jock, Geordie or Taffy. .

[myglaren]

Apropos that, a decade or more ago I had to phone BT about loss of connection or something, many calls over a couple of weeks.
No problem with the Irish, Welsh and Indian people but completely stymied by the Scots.

[CitroJim]

I have loads of trouble with Scottish Steve... Geordies no problem as I spent a lot of my life working with several; I many not speak it fluently but have a full understanding... I love the Geordie accent

The Scottish dialect is is another matter, despite working with and knowing many I've never got my ears around it. People tell me Billy Connolly is a very funny comedian. I'm sure he is but his speech, to me, is totally incomprehensible - He'd may as well be speaking Chinese as far as my ears are concerned...

And spoken jokes don't' really work with subtitles...

Imagine the plight of Indian students, taught in university English to graduate level then in their first job as call centre operator they encounter a bad tempered Jock, Geordie or Taffy. .

Or even a proper West Country boy Eric My ex used to say I became unintelligible as soon as I crossed over the border into Somerset

Same here Steve, if I get a Scot on the end of a call centre line I make my excuses and ring back a few minutes later hoping to get someone different! Don't get me wrong, I love the Scots and know plenty - it's just they all need subtitles..

[Hell Razor5543]

I saw one of these near to Eastbourne this evening;

[Huskyxantia]

Seen 2 brand new electric Audi's over the last 2 weeks they look pretty nice very sporty too

[Hell Razor5543]

I think I spotted a Yorkshire electric car today in Oxfordshire. It was a 71 reg VW e-up! No photos, as I was driving at the time.

[ChrisRobin]

An E-UP, I know what were the fatherland thinking, clearly weren't! they have given up on them now. the Mii electric wasn't any better either in fact we sold less of them around 3 I think lovingly know as the E-ME allegedly 140ish mile range, the last E-ME we had in for diag was doing 80 tops but to be fair it was carrying 4 adults most times it seems, but you know what we never saw them in the workshop in their hordes for diag's and cell issues like the I.D's and Etrons, in fact I think Skoda has the least Cell problems for us followed by the Cupra Formentor then it is really close between Audi and VW we change loads of cells on both those marques I would say more I.D's just.
Audi thought is nowhere near what it use to be.

[myglaren]

An 'Evri' van.
Not so unusual except that our Evriman comes in an unmarked van, during the day.
Saw this approaching at 03:21 and was wondering what it could be. As it passed it was emblazoned with 'Evri' and 'WATT'.

Stayed up the street for about twenty minutes but I had long since retired again by then but saw the lights sweep by as I never close my curtains*, heard the faint whirr of the motor then the telltale 'click-clack' of the loose drain cover outside my house. Almost evri car that comes up the street does that.

The reason for the 'WATT' appears to be that it is a Watt van.

Like the one second from the right.
All new to me.

*The house where I was born (grandparents house) was on one of the main roads through town at the time and I was fascinated by the sweep of headlights as cars passed by at night.
I doubt that there were more than 100 cars in the town at the time, early 1940s.
A very early memory as we didn't live in that town until I was three years old.

[CitroJim]

And Evri are now no longer the worst courier... They are now second from last just above Yodel

Amazon and Royal Mail come out equal top with DPD close behind. No real surprises there.

[myglaren]

As I have said previously, we have no problems with any of them.

Although an Amazon van came flying up the street yesterday, just as all the kids were leaving the primary school 100 yards away. Parked very poorly blocking a six car parking area then as he reversed out ripped the front bumper off his van on a set of bollards.
It was rather amusing seeing him leaping about like a demented monkey and shouting down his phone.