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I have to check my company's English translations for a new product they have made. The product is an electrical wall box for charging electric cars. They wrote the following sentence:
Ideal for classic electromobilists
I have never heard of the word electromobilists and I can not find the definition anywhere online. Although English is my native language, I did not study English and I make mistakes in English all the time. Can someone tell me if this sentence makes sense?
The word is a neologism that isn't likely to get into dictionaries yet, but we all know who an automobilist is, recognise the analogy and understand. I can't say if it makes sense in the context - the quote you gave is too short for that - but hopefully it does. The word itself sounds perfectly fine to me. I can't say I recall seeing it before, but I don't think I'd take any notice if I did because there isn't anything weird or confusing about it.
"Electromobilist" sounds like jargon, and the word (real or not) won't be familiar to most people. Adding "classic" only makes things worse by creating an oxymoron.
I recommend you go back to the source to figure out what they were hoping to communicate. The phrase is that misguided!
