/"I was a little offended when Bruce implied Tesla owners are snobby. I am certainly not nor or other Tesla owning EVDLers..."/
A few years ago I was participating in the local club's display of EVs. I stepped up to two Tesla S owners talking just as one asked the other if he had ever dropped down from a local mountain summit. He had not. I chimed in that I had, and they gave me a look of disdain and turned away. Last year I was at a get together with some people I used to work with. A VP was proudly discussing his Tesla S when a friend mentioned my converted EV. Again the look of disdain, that my friend would even mention such a vehicle in the same conversation. Not all are that haughty, I know a couple who are not, but many more I have met are. Some Leaf owners similarly look down on converted vehicles as not "real" EVs. When I mentioned I had a converted car to a new local club member he asked disdainfully, "What's it got, lead acid batteries?" with the seeming implication it was useless. When I explained it had lithium cells and about the same range as a Leaf, he started talking to another Leaf owner nearby to change the subject. My impression is that the new manufactured EV owners like to think they are the avant-guarde. The above club member referred to himself as a "pioneer". All those earlier EVs don't count, even though some commuted daily for years in those "lead acid" vehicles, showed that limited range electric vehicles could be very useful, and provided quite a bit of learning. If that's what it takes to get people to buy EVs, that's fine. I just don't feel like attempting to interact with them anymore. I no longer participate in the local EV club, and if someone asks if my car is electric, I simply respond "yes", and continue on about my business. -- View this message in context: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/EVs-Here-There-and-Everywhere-tp4677348p4677375.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)
