r/ChargerDrama

What are we supposed to do with people like this?

On a road trip with my lucid air (coming back from pebble beach car show) and stopped at EA for some charging.

Parked in a charging spot. Not plugged in. Ample parking elsewhere. At least there was another charger.

My brother recently purchased his first EV (Honda prologue) and wanted to test the chargers in front of his apartment building, only to discover the joy of people blocking charging spots. A warm welcome to the club! They have been reported to the HOA who fortunately are trying to crack down on the problem.

Mach-E was in the shop for a front motor replacement. Had a gas loaner, an Explorer. Went to fill it up and some EV driver with a Sierra EV blocked one of the pumps. This despite there being an open parking spot not at a pump about 10 yards away.

I don't get people.

Me and one other person are the only two people that work for my company that have EVs. The company has two EV chargers. This is what I saw on my way back from lunch.

If you’re going to charge for more than 4 hours (the limit), please don’t just drop charging cables on the ground and walk away. Like that Volkswagen (EV-WI BBN-1527)—that’s how we lose free charging. At least hang it up if you don’t want to plug it back into the post.

Delete the final episode. Brand new just opened Walmart EV charging in Decatur. Texas is already being iced and the people that have the ice cars don't give a darn about parking in an EV charging spot even though the spots are labeled. How is Walmart going to be handling this? @walmart

#walmart

I spent the last two days at Canada’s Wonderland. This supercharger is at a supermarket within blocks of the park.

Sure there were 18 stalls, but, all of us kept gawking at this hummer ev with a boat and Canadian plates taking up 5 chargers. Especially since there’s more powerful non Tesla chargers with pull throughs within a few kilometers.

The thought of a Canadian having this inefficient of a vehicle with this entitled of behavior was super funny to see up north.

I'll be here for 12 hours so I'll check again in 10 and see if they are still there. I called BC Hydro and they won't enforce towing and the university doesn't have a phone number to call for their parking... So I wait

Fortunately I was still able to squeeze between this and a dumpster container on the other side.

Lots of parking elsewhere in the garage, but I guess the EV charging spots save you 10 seconds of walking?

I asked whoever is was in there if we can use the charger as we need to charge and he said no and told us to go away. Then there was a guy parked in their car for 5+ minutes not charging. We asked him if he was gonna charge and rudely told us yes and looked at us like we were somehow the rude ones.

Florida Turnpike (of course).

I get it, it’s hot, but you couldn’t walk 20ft and piss behind the bush like a real man?
The walk to the actual plaza clearly too much for this beacon of social responsibility.

It wasn’t even behind the charger, but behind the transformer that feeds them. I know they’re weatherproof but that’s got to be some lightning level spark if they weren’t.