Human taxonomists have announced the emergence in Australia of a new sub-species of homo sapiens, Insufferabilis EVmobilus. While the species has been sighted since 2010 here and is far more prevalent in Europe and China, what has excited observers is its recent explosion in local numbers and its changing public demeanour in the weeks since the Straits of Hormuz oil crisis began.

In October 2025, some 410,000 of the variant were known to exist in Australia.

In a forthcoming documentary expected from veteran wildlife film maker David Attenborough, wholesale changes have been observed in both the sub-species and in the still dominant general population.

“For years we’ve seen  EV drivers huddled together for solidarity and mutual support in our on-line chatrooms. We’ve been painted as chronic sufferers of the non-disease of range anxiety, cruel jibes about EVs being pretend, characterless cars, and exposing the community  to mobile incendiary devices threatening to start diabolical fires that are the devil to put out” said an EV driver speaking in confidence. “But since the current oil crisis where we see petrol and diesel prices requiring prior clearance from your bank manager, nightly news vision of “no fuel” signs outside servos, queues, and petrol station drive-off theft and siphoning, everything has changed.”

Many EV drivers are today reporting humble approaches from ICE diehards, gently enquiring about our experiences, cost savings, recommendations. It’s a wholly different vibe.

But others are reporting the rapid growth in smug, self-satisfied, insufferable “I told you so” pomposity from the sub-species. “This is often amplified in home battery owners who regale all around them with stories of having turned their homes into all-electric cost savers, homeopathically small power bills, never having to buy petrol and rare and low servicing costs. If you think golf, wine, stock market and vape bores are odious, wait till you get bailed up by a newly evangelical Insufferabilis EVmobilus” another said.

The species is expected to greatly multiply over the next few years, with many ICE car owners seeing their cars drop like stones in resale value with some suffering the indignity of having to sell them for scrap.

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