Saw a leaf being recovered this morning

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Being loaded onto the back of a low-loader... incidentally from beside the charging point next to my local leisure center. (charger not working?)

Is this going to be a more common sight in future do you think?

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is their a problem with them we don't know about? (assuming the charging point was working)

Just seemed odd to see such a new car (still covered in finance stickers) being loaded onto a recovery truck.

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andyxxx said:

skyrover said:

is their a problem with them we don't know about? (assuming the charging point was working)

Just seemed odd to see such a new car (still covered in finance stickers) being loaded onto a recovery truck.

If it was covered in finance stickers - could it have been a new car that had been on display at the leisure centre?
Or perhaps they were just filling it up with leccy to deliver to new owners with a 'full tank'

All good explanations.

I've seen the car driving around town a few times, so I don't think it was used as a a static advert (although it may have been)

It does make me question the wisdom of short ranged electric transport though. Lets assume the average petrol car get 30 miles grace once the low fuel light goes on. Plenty of time to fill up. That's approximately half the leaf's real world range, not to mention electricity does not come in handy refillable cans.

Ah well... it gave me something to mull over on my way to work

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McWigglebum4th said:

The utterly stunning thing to me is that someone has gone to the bother of creating all these breakdown trucks when no fossil fuelled car has ever broken down or run out of fuel

Eleventy million fossil fueled car's around here though. Only one or two electrics