I don’t know if you are a blood donor, Gothitjulie, but if you are put me down for a pint. Anyone who can get so inspired over this could definitely give me a lock-down boost. Now if it were the second coming I might open the curtains.
Used to be a blood donor many years ago, O negative universal donor, they liked me.
I’m not sure where the inspiration comes from but I’ve always had it, I’ve always been the impetuous bouncy one who adopts tech fairly early. Examples would be things like being at university & returning to the parentals on a train, & I’d be listening to music with headphones on, then I’d want to change the tape, but wait, that’s not a Sony Walkman, it’s a Sony Discman II, & the onlookers are shocked that some young student type is changing the CD, & it’s only 1986. Many years later I used mini disc players in the same way although who uses minidiscs now? As for mobile phones, I adopted them once they shrunk to a reasonable size, around 1992, and I phoned my partner from the bath to request more Champagne & they couldn’t quite work out just how I could phone the landline from the bath… I’m decadent of course, I always find a way.
The other side of me is the helpful side, a couple of days back I’d plugged the car into a brand new 7kW post at my usual supermarket & a woman approached me to ask if it was easy to use as she had just ordered a BEV herself & was nervous. I showed her how it all worked & how easy it was. I guess for many women it’s just having another woman to ask, wheras I’m the type that works it out for myself but wouldn’t ask a man either (I run with the idea that if a man designed & made it, it must be very simple).
As for getting inspired over EVs, I’m a scientist, science involves spending hours peering down a microscope to understand what you’re seeing, EVs are much simpler yet more exciting.