Only one EV charger at home?!

Including police. Mind you an American policeman has an average IQ of only 104.

So you could carry a pin round with you if you're an obese lazy American and urgently need a doughnut.

There's one somewhere around Petersfield on the A3 west of London. One man garage, does car repairs and sells petrol.

Where did you locate the accelerator pedal for the pump? Every pump I've seen pumps at a fixed speed.

Then how come I've seen videos of big fires? I think usually it must have been pumping. You see, the nozzle isn't there to block it anymore.

Not that absent minded. When I had a car without the little thing to hold the petrol cap on, I left it lying at a petrol station 15 times in 6 months.

No, they don't break in half, I've seen pumps yanked out of the ground. Then you have that open pipe....

They bothered with all that instead of just simply requiring the customer to hold onto it? Just how lazy are Americans?

Pity they don't all have them or work.

With ours is depends upon the mode set (ECO, Normal, Sport) and the regeneration level set (None, medium, Strong). I generally have it set to give more "engine braking" than an ICE car, but not so much that it catches me out.

Many of us were taught to change down through the gears and use engine braking for almost all stops, including around town. These days they tend to rely on brakes and just change down to whatever gear they expect to need as the set off or speed up again.

My kids are currently learning on a manual. If they learned on an automatic, they'd be blocked from driving the majority of second-hand cars, classic cars, my kit-car, most vans and (assuming that recent consultation leads to a change back to the old rules, 7.5t trucks).

Modern machines are very quiet anyway. Our tumble-dryer is almost inaudible. The (direct drive) washing machine is unnoticeable when talking and hardly gets any louder when spinning!

You certainly don't notice them in the next room - even with the doors open.

Or the driver behind you... At least in the US it takes brake lights to convince some drivers you're slowing down. On a bike I often flick the brake even though I can almost come to a complete stop running down through the gears.

That's another Lotus Seven variant? I only knew about Caterham. Getting one of those into the US is an arcane process.

There are a couple around here. A friend who was a quadriplegic but could drive a specially fitted van used them. CostCo has an attendant that will help handicapped people with no extra charge. The other full service stations charged more for the gasoline but when operating the pump isn't an option it was worth the few cents more. Some able bodied people who were above the task also went to them.

That's 20 points higher than most of those he deals with.

I would guess it's the 'hot hatchback' segment like the Civic Type R, Golf GTI, and GR Corolla rather than small foreign cars in general. Oddly the Mazda 3 Turbo only comes with a 6 speed AT. That would appeal to the youth market Cindy mentioned.

I don't care for 4 door hatchbacks or I wouldn't mind one. I'd love a GR Yaris but that ain't happening in the US.

Plain vanilla small foreign cars are mostly AT.

Not only that but modern ATs often get better mileage than MTs for the all important EPA fleet bullshit.

You haven't seen anything until you've seen a pickup with dual tanks. I remember those sunny days of yore when gas pumps only went up to $99.99.

My tank only holds 42 liters. What sort of whale do you drive?

Kafirs? I gather there's an orangutan or similar with 80. Nigerians are 65. This conclusively proves some of us devolved not evolved from apes.

No excuse for being that low though. Police ought te be 120+.

Nothing like that round here, but I'm pretty sure if any disabled person was to ask, one of the people serving at the till, or no doubt another customer, would help.

What an interesting, time consuming, and expensive way to charge a battery.

I'd disconnect it, and check the voltage once every 2 months, if it was too low, plug in a charger.

I used to have two incase one was in the garage. But there's double the tax and MOTs. Insurance usually doubles unless you can find a rare sensible company who realises your mileage is the same.