Drivers behaviour on roads

It's the condition of his battery, driving slow to conserve battery.

Personally I think it's a combination of factors, possibly age, ability, contrariness

In my mind he is the type of snail with white knuckles rather than the snail going weeeeeeeee on a tortoise 🐢

Well if I was behind him I'd be perfectly calm however the cars behind me [thousands of them] will start getting impatient and then stupid things start happening like undertaking

If you find a vehicle doing 80 on a motorway, where there's at least two lanes, a hindrance, you should resit your test.

You seem to be getting a bit agitated - like other road users seem to get with you while driving. Have you considered the reasons why people flash you, beep you and abuse you? What are they saying when they abuse you at lights?

It's highly unusual to get frequent flashing, beeps and abuse in my experience. As in, it's happened a few times in 15+ years driving but probably not this year and never frequently. A little introspection might be helpful before blaming everyone else.

Also, grouping posters / ICE drivers / EV drivers /cyclists into homogenous groups who you think behave the same is an unreasonable and unhelpful generalisation. There are great, average and poor road users in every group.

There's no need to tailgate, and there's no need to drive faster than 80km on a motorway. I pass people toddling along the M11 at that speed all the time. Why are you the special one that gets tailgated, flashed, beeped and abused?

Obviously the guy with his hands behind his head is just relaxing,

The OP might only be concerned with the guy behind him, there probably is a long long que of others behind them both, you only need 1 person to slip up, all for the sake of some idiot trying to make his car go an extra few kms.

First thing that came to mind for being flashed was, do you have your lights on?

On a bright, but wet day with spray, "Auto" lights on many cars, (but EV's in particular I notice) often do not activate the rear lights with the wipers.

Secondly, are you doing an actual 80km/h, or 80km/h as indicated by your speedometer? In the latter case, you could be doing closer to 75.

While it is of course legal to do 80km/h, if you're doing so without good reason, you're a fairly terrible driver. Range anxiety doesn't cut it - you should plan better.

The reason for that view is that when on a motorway, other drivers who are doing the limit should not have to brake or accelerate to accommodate you. Drivers behind you are closing at 40+km/h, and have half the time to move to the outer lane, than if you were doing above 100km/h like 95% of other traffic. You are the outlier at 80km/h.

If you were going faster, the other drivers would just have to lift off, have double the amount of time to react, and pass you easily without braking.

Yes it is the responsibility of other drivers to do this, but you're causing almost every single other driver on the road, including busses and trucks to take action to accommodate your own bad planning.

Think of it as standing in the middle of a supermarket door, having a chat with a group of friends. Not illegal, but you'll piss off absolutely everyone who has to squeeze past you.

Normally satire is supposed to have an element of comedy 😝