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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 😊

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Bethan M. Jenkins
Bethan M. Jenkins
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ah, this sounds like happy memories of motorbike days with tailgaters through the 30mphs who didn't understand "acceleration" and "torque"
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Sarah Brown
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@Bethan M. Jenkins 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.

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🌹 MissBMoon ✊🏻
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there was once a time that I had seen a Leaf when they were showcasing them at a automobile fair, and no lies, it was the nicest car that I could see myself driving one day.
Hybrids should be already the norm, no more petrol/gas only cars should be still manufactured 😬
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Sarah Brown
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@🌹 MissBMoon ✊🏻 I have absolutely no regrets buying it. You're right about it just being utterly ... nice ... to drive.
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Gen X-Wing
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@MissBMoon Koenigsegg builds hybrids, which I find funny. People complaining about “weak” hybrids drive weak slow cars themselves.
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Katie Fenn
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I was leaving Linacre Water near Chesterfield, scenic dog-walker spot which has a narrow single-track lane back to the main road, and stopped at the end of the lane because I spotted a car coming the other way.

A dude in an Audi S4 Avant decided to overtake me in my PHEV Golf, and make a dash for the lane. He got alongside me before the oncoming car came around the corner, and had to reverse back behind me.

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Katie Fenn
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I enjoyed the next five minutes of 30 MPH driving through the next village. He didn’t get another opportunity to overtake me before I turned off for Sheffield.

I do get the same satisfaction from driving the Golf GTE. The GTE mode that runs the petrol engine and the electric motor at the same time for ridiculous throttle response is brilliant to catch show-offs out, but I’ve knocked it off lately because men do scarily dangerous things when they’ve been shown up.

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