Sounds like "Burned EVangelist Syndrome". It is not about you or your EV, people who behave like that *are* the problem, so don't take their monkey, it is not your problem. Please don't get discouraged from talking about your EV to others because a few are having a problem...
Cor van de Water Chief Scientist Proxim Wireless office +1 408 383 7626 Skype: cor_van_de_water XoIP +31 87 784 1130 private: cvandewater.info www.proxim.com This email message (including any attachments) contains confidential and proprietary information of Proxim Wireless Corporation. If you received this message in error, please delete it and notify the sender. Any unauthorized use, disclosure, distribution, or copying of any part of this message is prohibited. -----Original Message----- From: EV [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of tomw via EV Sent: Sunday, August 30, 2015 9:19 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [EVDL] [SPAM?] Re: EVs Here, There and Everywhere /"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) _______________________________________________ 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)
