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Best thing about driving an EV (Nissan Leaf): coming up to the autoestrada, single lane sliproad, 270º bend, some guy behind tailgating me because I refused to speed round the bend. A lot of people do this. I guess they see a family hatchback EV and decide it must be a "little old lady"-mobile, and they have a desperate need to show me how I'm holding their impressive petrol burner up.
Bend straightens out to join the main carriageway, and I just press the "tailgater begone" switch (the accelerator, all the way to the floor).
And then suddenly an obscenity of kilowatts is delivered to my wheels, and I'm just ... gone.
About a minute later, he does a spite overtake when he's finally got up to >120kph and caught me up.
But I know I'm living rent-free in his head for that
Bend straightens out to join the main carriageway, and I just press the "tailgater begone" switch (the accelerator, all the way to the floor).
And then suddenly an obscenity of kilowatts is delivered to my wheels, and I'm just ... gone.
About a minute later, he does a spite overtake when he's finally got up to >120kph and caught me up.
But I know I'm living rent-free in his head for that
@goatsarah ah, this sounds like happy memories of motorbike days with tailgaters through the 30mphs who didn't understand "acceleration" and "torque"
@gwenynen Yeah. The torque is exactly it. Electric motors excel at it. No waiting for an engine to spin up, no having to drop a gear. Just raw power on tap, immediately.
That it's quite a lot of power is also nice
Also the "whirrrrrrrr" noise of the electric motor when you do that is really satisfying.
It's terrible for battery life tho.
That it's quite a lot of power is also nice
Also the "whirrrrrrrr" noise of the electric motor when you do that is really satisfying.
It's terrible for battery life tho.
@goatsarah @gwenynen feels good to be pressed back into the seat for a bit!