At midday I went out and there was a car parked blocking my drive exit with the driver inside. No matter, I'll toot and they'll move.
Lady got out of car and explained that it's broken down but the AA is coming. I might have explored shoving it out of the way but it was tipping down. The AA has been, seen, and gone. It's an EV apparently and has run out of battery. She is now waiting for a recovery truck, expected at 14.15. She asked the patrolman if he could at least move it 3 metres down the road but he said he didn't know how to get it into 'neutral' to do that.
It occurred to me that it would have been quite helpful if, in its dying moments, it had issued a warning such as "Battery empty, stop in a safe place immediately." I get the impression it just died.
She said it showed 20% and then just went to zero.
It's a Vauxhall Mokka electric. Quite sharp looking.
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