I test drove a Bolt last summer. It drives just like any other car. The shifter is not as hard to figure out as a Prius, and that only takes most people a few seconds as it is slightly different than a "normal" car. I suspect you are correct, either the car could not be started from lack of a FOB in the car, or the car was drive-able, but the thief did not realize the car was turned on.
I thought it was an odd piece as well, but did not jump to anti-ev bias... Many modern cars start and shift differently than how cars have in the past... Someone in the reporting process clearly thought it was because it was electric, but perhaps not the author of the story. It's reasonable to believe that the thief actually did not know how to start and therefore drive the car and attributed it to being electric. So I vote for ignorance over maliciousness :) Damon ________________________________ From: EV <ev-boun...@lists.evdl.org> on behalf of EVDL Administrator via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2018 10:49 AM To: Electric Vehicle Discussion List Cc: EVDL Administrator Subject: Re: [EVDL] EVjacker: Stymied by Bolt EV controls> arrested, $20k-bail Austin-TX On 28 Feb 2018 at 10:32, brucedp5 via EV wrote: > [The alleged carjacker] then attempted to drive away but couldnTMt > because he didnTMt know how to drive an electric car, according to the > document. > > It said the owner of the car later told police, who were alerted at 11:10 a.m. > Saturday, that oehis vehicle cannot be driven like a normal vehicle and takes > some getting used to.? I'm calling BS on this one. My uninformed guess (but no more uninformed than the writer of this piece) is that the car had an RFID key fob, just as many ICEVs now have. The fob was still in the driver's pocket, and the car refused to move because key fob and driver were no longer in the car, much less in the driver's seat.. Ths stinks to the skies of the old anti-EV bias: "EVs are really WEIRD. What normal person would ever want one?" David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA EVDL Administrator = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = EVDL Information: https://nam03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.evdl.org%2Fhelp%2F&data=02%7C01%7C%7C51c2399dbcb741784b5908d57edbf4ed%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636554405521123603&sdata=4P796V5KCeiQVwRAfoN7tlGSc%2FaOzU8r%2Bo%2FG2y5KJIw%3D&reserved=0 = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Note: mail sent to "evpost" and "etpost" addresses will not reach me. To send a private message, please obtain my email address from the webpage https://nam03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.evdl.org%2Fhelp%2F&data=02%7C01%7C%7C51c2399dbcb741784b5908d57edbf4ed%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636554405521123603&sdata=4P796V5KCeiQVwRAfoN7tlGSc%2FaOzU8r%2Bo%2FG2y5KJIw%3D&reserved=0 . = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: https://nam03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.evdl.org%2Fhelp%2Findex.html%23usub&data=02%7C01%7C%7C51c2399dbcb741784b5908d57edbf4ed%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636554405521123603&sdata=ZNA7pIP1Tg0MEnjui%2B76h8expb3CAcZIyUvoM5UUwio%3D&reserved=0 https://nam03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flists.evdl.org%2Flistinfo.cgi%2Fev-evdl.org&data=02%7C01%7C%7C51c2399dbcb741784b5908d57edbf4ed%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636554405521123603&sdata=db%2F%2FOlnoCNMjZRkqn5kl7iaQzgrp5x96iBQqTL1wrno%3D&reserved=0 Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (https://nam03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgroups.yahoo.com%2Fgroup%2FNEDRA&data=02%7C01%7C%7C51c2399dbcb741784b5908d57edbf4ed%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636554405521123603&sdata=a9ER4uveUWRZDMys%2FYgpM%2FQxS%2BIClc9H1mXv16e2d2Q%3D&reserved=0) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20180228/6fdb6d7a/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
