Today I had an afternoon appointment at the VA for a minor surgical outpatient procedure. Before heading out toward the VA miles away, I stopped off at a local Kmart for some OTC medications.
As I entered their parking lot a black Tesla-S EV was just leaving. A Tesla at a Kmart? Yup, even those that afford a Tesla want to save on purchases. This is not as odd as I first thought because I then remembered a couple of years ago, I got to chat to another Tesla owner at different store chain. She said she and her husband both had Tesla EVs, and they live in the affluent town near by. After I had bought the meds, and left the store, I saw a Leaf EV. I made another stop at another local store, and yup there was that black with bright orange trim Fiat 500e EV parked in its usual spot in the parking lot. My guess is that EV belongs to one of the people working at one of the shopping center stores. Then as I got on the Hwy heading toward the VA, a Leaf EV merged onto the Hwy with ease, as I typically drive conservatively at 55mph in the right lane. On my route off that Hwy, I passed through the northern part of Silicon Valley on Page Mill Rd. Another Tesla this time zipping past me making a left turn to one of the High-Tech companies in that area. As I turned into the VA parking lot, I was hopping to see the leased Leaf EV of the Dr. I had previously posted about, but it was not there (perhaps he drove it to Stanford Hospital where he does part-time work). Several hours later (the waiting in the VA pharmacy took almost as much time as the procedure itself), I left the air-conditioned VA bldg for a blast-furnace face-hit of hot air going through the door to the outside (?Is there still any doubters of global climatic-changes/warming?). As I left to get onto a different Hwy to head toward home an impatient Tesla EV driver blasted past all the people patiently going the speed limit behind me, and cut me off to take the exit on to that Hwy heading north. This is the same Hwy I have been blown-past by speed-demon Volt pih drivers in the past. But not today. I had gotten out of VA late, and now commute traffic had hit, hard. As there were no on ramp timing lights to control traffic, there were a ton of cars all going nowhere real quick (lots of stop-n-go traffic crawling north with uncontrolled on ramp cars merging, slowing it down even more). Still after I had finally made it to my Hwy exit, and gotten on the city street that would take me home, there not one but three different Leaf EVs at different times along that route for me to spy. Yes, as you can tell, there are even more EVs in this area than ever before. They are here, there, and everywhere ... For EVLN posts use: http://evdl.org/evln/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here,_There_and_Everywhere Here, There and Everywhere ... http://www.drugs.com/otc/ OTC (Over the Counter) {brucedp.150m.com} -- View this message in context: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/EVs-Here-There-and-Everywhere-tp4677348.html Sent from the Electric Vehicle Discussion List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
