Rob Grieves 🇦🇺

This will be VERY unpopular. This never gets a mentioned about becoming an EV driver. You don’t realise how bad exhaust fumes are. How bad they smell. How hard it is to breathe. Until you stop being around them. When you switch to an EV, something weird happens. At first, nothing. It just feels normal. Then one day you’re walking through a car park… Or sat behind an older diesel at the lights… Or someone starts their engine right next to you… Or simply drives past. And it hits you. That smell. That thick, dirty, oily exhaust smell. And you suddenly realise… This used to be constant. It was normal. And now it stinks. You can’t breathe. Every school run. Every traffic jam. Every petrol station. Every drive-through queue. We’ve just been conditioned to accept it. Once you’ve had even a short break from it, your tolerance drops massively. It’s like going from a smoky room into fresh air, and then being forced back inside. You notice it instantly. And it feels worse than you remember. That’s what people underestimate. Cleaner air isn’t just some invisible benefit. And once that happens, once you properly notice the difference, there’s no going back, and it will drive you mad.