Priority over normal parking space for EV's?

[vikingaero]

In Truro at the weekend and so was everyone else for the M&S sales as it was heaving in there with take-no-prisoner grannies.

Drove into a pay and display car park and was lucky enough to get the last space (not disabled, not EV charging point, not reserved, not anything, just a standard public space), where I reversed in quickly and neatly a la PH man. I got out of the car to be confronted by the driver of the EV that entered the car park behind me and had now parked across me. Her first words were:

"You need to move, because my car is electric".

I had Mrs V. and Vikingette2 with me so I knew I had to be measured in my response and being 50, I know from life experience that arguing or engaging with stupid people is pointless.

So I said nothing and gave her my dirtiest look (now my come to bed one) and walked off.

Karens and EVs. WTF.

[TheRainMaker]

Maybe she thought it was a charging bay for some reason.

Anyway, smile and wave

[languagetimothy]

odd. I would have liked them to explain their reasoning to me as id be very curious.

[vikingaero]

I think she was frustrated that I'd got the last space, and it was an attempt to "greenwash" me into moving. I did stand at the end of the car park for 5 mins whilst Mrs V. and V1 went shopping to check that she wasn't going to gouge the paintwork of the car.

[Dingu]

What are we meant to be discussing? You met an idiot.

[blueg33]

I would have said "my car needs electricity to run too" the walk off and leave her pondering.

[Road2Ruin]

I call custard

[blueg33]

Road2Ruin said:

I call custard

I like it special parking rights for custard powered cars

[Jimjimhim]

It's a bit of a non story really.

[vikingaero]

I'm not sure how to get a time machine to custardise the scenario. I have my P&D ticket in the car still.

Is this something we are going to see more often when EVs become more mainstream?

[Jimjimhim]

vikingaero said:

I'm not sure how to get a time machine to custardise the scenario. I have my P&D ticket in the car still.

Is this something we are going to see more often when EVs become more mainstream?

No

[alscar]

Idiots drive all types of vehicles.

[hidetheelephants]

The ratio of morons to non-morons will remain stable during the transition to EVs, there are too many now and there will be too many then.

[LunarOne]

There are some parking spaces in a town near me that I only ever use when I want a kebab late at night. Recently some charging posts have been installed next to those spaces and the council have painted "EV" on the road next to them. I haven't figured out whether this is supposed to mean that EVs can charge there, or whether the spaces are now only for use by EVs. It doesn't say "EV only". Just "EV". I've never seen any EVs actually parked there after 9pm - it's mostly signwritten crew cab pickups owned by large tattoo-sleeved heavily-bearded landscapers or stone merchants. Or perhaps their husbands...

[AmyRichardson]

hidetheelephants said:

The ratio of morons to non-morons will remain stable during the transition to EVs, there are too many now and there will be too many then.

Or maybe she jumped back in her car and told her passenger "well it worked on that suckered last week, so it's worth the punt."

[Earthdweller]

At Forton Services on the M6 they have put all the EV chargers on the entrance lane from the slip road off the motorway as you approach and enter into the car park

Seems madness to me as you get EV's blocking the entrance to the car park and causing traffic to block the slip off the M6 as they wait to get a charging spot

They've prioritised the spots for EVs by the entrance to the shops but not thinking of the knock on effect of the positioning

[98elise]

languagetimothy said:

odd. I would have liked them to explain their reasoning to me as id be very curious.

Same here. I'd love to hear the logic of EV's getting priority in a standard parking space, especially as the OP was already parked in it.

[J4CKO]

Weird behaviour/entitlement.

Are EV bays just for EV's being charged at the time, as otherwise if not needing a charge it is the same as any other car ?

Do you get EV owners using them just because they are in an EV or is the etiquette that it must have a cable plugged in ?

[Wills2]

I like the fact that you didn't respond verbally and recognised that no good would come from an exchange between you and the Karen, it does seem a bizarre situation she must have thought it was an EV bay.

[phil4]

For an EV space to be an EV space, you'd think it'd need to have a charger, so the OP defo not at fault.

However, on the recently pointed out issue, if it has a charger and you're not charging, by parking there you're depriving someone else of a charger they may need, therefore very bad form in my eyes, how bad depending on the quantity of others and speed of chargers.