It’s going back. The Electric Vehicle. Next month is the third anniversary of our lease agreement and those fuckers are taking it back! Some anniversary present that is. Congrats. Three years. Give it back or we send the bailiffs. And we’ll miss it. Because in some ways, it’s the most fantastic vehicle ever created. Smooth, silent, fast-as-fuck and refined. Bit like me. Other than the silent. The refined. The fast. I’ve always been quite ‘smooth’. But in other ways it has been a nightmare. EVs are like puppies; fabulous fun but you wouldn’t want them straying too far from home. Because you might need to… charge them!!! In a public space!!!
The EV ‘experiment’ is not going well. The government here try to convince everyone to buy them. Whilst doing fuck all about the massive infrastructure required to maintain them to a realistic standard. Yet car manufacturers are punished, severely, if they don’t sell the proportion of EVs (to petrol and hybrids) which Ed Miliband and his troup of fuckwit tree-huggers has kind’a randomly decided that they should sell. The ‘fines’ are in the millions of pounds. Yet really, they should be fining us for not buying them, not the manufacturers who have dutifully spent their billions in production costs and manufacturing cars which people don’t want to buy.
In America the ‘experiment’ is a total failure. Ok, there’s not exactly pressure from the government to either worry about climate issues, nor reduce petrol consumption. But the ‘big 3’ of Ford, General Motors and Chrysler (now part of Stellanis), have all now decided to abandon the ‘project’. They have all incurred losses in the 20 to 30 BILLION dollars region, making the electric dream machines which Daisy Duke wouldn’t be seen dead in. Ford even made the F.150, America’s best selling ‘truck’ for 49 fucking years, as an EV option. No-one wanted it. And you can’t use the very valid argument that ‘Americans can’t make decent cars’, because millions of indecent cars are sold to good old boys every year. Just not electric ones. The problem is obviously the distances involved ‘over there’, where to just go shopping, you have to leave your wife, sister and mother, with the 14 children you’ve fathered with all three, in your shack in the Alabama wilderness and drive 120 miles to the nearest ‘town’. Where there won’t be an EV charger until 2043.
So we had our car ‘tarted up’. This involved people with hammers and fillers and paint-sprayers. And now we’re scared to use it. In case some nonce puts his tool box on the bonnet while he’s opening his van, or some drunk rams the car with HER Waitrose trolley. Cos if the car’s not perfect there’ll be a price to pay. Not a nice one.
Therefore, we’ve pre-empted and bought… THE NEW CAR!!! And its sweet, its a hybrid, its white (as if there was any question), it has pre-entry climate control (the number one criterion) and if we scratch it or bash it, we don’t have to worry about the fucking lease company. We’re going to get them to get it now. Safer that way.
The electric dream is over. For now.
Happy Sunday
A xxxx









