Stupid questions about motorised conveyances

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If you can't push it how would you bump start it if the motor sticks?
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cros wrote: Mon Dec 06, 2021 2:08 pm Is it really true that you can't tow an electric car? Do the AA now carry generators to charge them up?

They do, and they also have towing dollies that allow them to be towed by lifting the wheels off the ground (rather than using a flatbed)

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/uk.motor ... owing/amp/

I’m not sure why people think that they’ll suddenly run out of charge in stupid places - do people really run out of petrol/diesel just around a blind bend?
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Kiltox wrote: Mon Dec 06, 2021 5:19 pm do people really run out of petrol/diesel just around a blind bend?
Yes, women do in my experience. Along with leaving headlights on, running on a flat tyre etc.
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Kiltox wrote: Mon Dec 06, 2021 5:19 pm
cros wrote: Mon Dec 06, 2021 2:08 pm Is it really true that you can't tow an electric car? Do the AA now carry generators to charge them up?

They do, and they also have towing dollies that allow them to be towed by lifting the wheels off the ground (rather than using a flatbed)

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/uk.motor ... owing/amp/

I’m not sure why people think that they’ll suddenly run out of charge in stupid places - do people really run out of petrol/diesel just around a blind bend?
Yep, trying to get to the next petrol station when the low fuel light has been glowing for ages.
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Kiltox wrote: Mon Dec 06, 2021 5:19 pm
cros wrote: Mon Dec 06, 2021 2:08 pm Is it really true that you can't tow an electric car? Do the AA now carry generators to charge them up?

They do, and they also have towing dollies that allow them to be towed by lifting the wheels off the ground (rather than using a flatbed)

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/uk.motor ... owing/amp/

I’m not sure why people think that they’ll suddenly run out of charge in stupid places - do people really run out of petrol/diesel just around a blind bend?
Well in that case the prudent electric car buyer should consider slipping one of these in the boot. You hardly know they're running.
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Single cylinder diesel for the best refinement.
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https://www.flashcharge.uk/

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This will become a common sight as more and more people buy electric cars as vanity objects but have nowhere to charge them.

Check out the prices

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It'd be cheaper to get a chauffered limo.

Kiltox is obviously a pretty organised bloke but I suspect a lot of the buyers aren't, it being a boasting point like a new kitchen. As you say that looks like a sure fire money spinner, especially when hubby is at work and gets a call that the car won't start and the dashboard is lit up.
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Jazoli wrote: Mon Dec 06, 2021 6:18 pm https://www.flashcharge.uk/

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This will become a common sight as more and more people buy electric cars as vanity objects but have nowhere to charge them.

Check out the prices

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No, it won’t. It’s clearly the brain child of a mentalist with some inheritance to spare (or similar).

All it will achieve is fuelling the anti-EV rhetoric of those who have never driven one. Even their publicity stunt of hanging around Gloucester services when it’s busy only shows that Gridserve need to expand their capacity there for the fuckwits who can’t go a mile off the motorway to another charger.

It’d be like the AA offering to bring you a can of fuel for £6 a litre if you run out with a minimum quantity of half a tank rather than just pouring a litre in to get you to the next garage.
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Over here, any form of towing is illegal. Breakdown in any vehicle, then it will be a flat bed to recover you home or to a garage.

And as breakdown recovery is included in your vehicle insurance, its not a problem.
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