Hello, it is your pleasant neighborhood automobile blogger right here with one other public service announcement. At the moment, I’m asking you, no begging you, to please not park like… no matter’s occurring right here. I do know your new electrical automobile is fancy and stuffed with all kinds of complicated options, however come on. You don’t, below any circumstances, have to take up three charging spots to cost your automobile. I am even sympathetic to the truth that not all chargers have cables which might be lengthy sufficient to achieve your cost port with out getting just a little artistic, however come on.
The Chevrolet Blazer EV‘s cost port is on the motive force’s facet entrance fender, which means completely none of this was essential. Zero. Nada. Not a bit. The motive force right here might have pulled proper right into a single charging spot and plugged in with no single difficulty. Each drawback this specific driver encountered is totally of their very own creation. In case you have an EV, you merely don’t have to do that.
Now, this picture was taken in entrance of some Tesla chargers, and a minimum of in principle, you may argue they have been merely making an attempt to maintain folks from giving Elon any cash, and who am I to criticize some direct motion? Besides they have been plugged in and a minimum of seemed to be giving Elon a few of their cash. I am open to being improper right here, however I extremely doubt they parked that approach due to their pro-democracy-and-rule-of-law stance.
Cease it, please
This one, however, is even worse, even if they solely blocked two parking spots as a substitute of three. As you may have the ability to guess from the truth that half the automobile is not even within the parking area, additionally they determined to dam the a part of the car parking zone the place folks drive their automobiles, forcing different drivers to go round. The selfishness is off the charts. Positive, I can admit the placement of the cost port would not make a setup like this essentially the most handy, however I additionally know for a truth that specific cost cable extends, which means, as soon as once more, they may have merely parked like regular, not inconvenienced anybody else and nonetheless charged their automobile.
I assume it is potential the motive force right here wasn’t robust sufficient to maneuver the cable, and yeah, they are often fairly heavy. Perhaps this driver was outdated or had a incapacity and will in any other case drive simply high quality. However you understand what you are able to do as a substitute of blocking site visitors? It is this little factor known as “asking for assist,” and 10 out of 10 occasions, it is assured to be much less annoying than pulling midway right into a parking spot and anticipating everybody else to go round you.
I imply, whereas it is getting higher, this nation’s charging infrastructure already sucks sufficient as it’s, and the chargers that do work are sometimes blocked by fuel and diesel-engined automobiles whose drivers who assume it is cool to be large, flaming douche-nozzles simply because a few of their neighbors select to drive autos with nontraditional powertrains. The very last thing we’d like is EV drivers making charging tougher for his or her fellow EV house owners. And but, right here we’re.
