Superchargers and ICE

[M4guy]

It amazes me how ignorant people can be, blatant big sign saying ‘Electric Vehicle recharging point only’ and yet they still park there!

Even more amazing is that they don’t seem to enforce them with fines! A nice big £100 fine sign would likely scare many of the pricks off.

Rant over

 

[Lokolo]

To be fair, it's not just charging stations. People do it every day with disabled bays and child parking bays.

 

[WannabeOwner]

So what jerk drives Jaguar AX06LPK ? There ... now Google can spider that at least.

 

[thegruf]

I saw some utter prat in an ICE SUV at the M40 services once, drove all the way around the car park and very obviously deliberately parked diagonally across two Tesla charge bays. I was just leaving at the time so didnt take issue with him.

I have long felt for misuse of disabled parking bays etc that a seriously sticky label placed on the windscreen in front of the driver would be a useful deterrent plus we could all have a laugh watching these inconsiderate drivers scratching away at the labels before they could drive off. As ever though it is a case of not mistakenly doing this to a genuine user.

Starting to think this would be a great idea for EV charging bays where there simply is no excuse.

Given the levels of abuse I do wonder how long it will be until we need rising bollards. Or maybe get cameras on the charging bays linked to the parking managment company, they could rake a ton of money in and share it with Tesla.

 

[Penfold]

that sucks. Its bad enough when the 8 charging points at work are taken up all day with hybrids when, although no monitoring is done, there is supposed to be a 4 hour limit which would be fine if people didn't just dump their cars, plug them in and leave them all day long or worse still bugger off on holiday for 2 weeks.

Although for me I brought the car with the knowledge that I don't have to charge to get to and from work each day (140 mile round trip) but would be nice to utilise these free chargers when available but the selfish people out there just don't think about anyone else but themselves grrrrr but for the Superchargers, its not like you can't see what they are!!!!!

 

[Asterix187]

I would have just parked behind them and blocked them in. Then just stated ‘I thought we could just park wherever we wanted as you are’.

 

[Penfold]

I would have just parked behind them and blocked them in. Then just stated ‘I thought we could just park wherever we wanted as you are’.

now that’s an idea

 

[thegruf]

Tempting - however I would think twice about that given the mentailty of the ppl that abuse SC spaces

 

[Daniel Wilson]

You could play hide and seek with these
Four Vehicle Positioning Hydraulic Wheel Skates - 680kg Per Skate

 

[WannabeOwner]

4 x 680kg Per Skate

I'm such a dork ..."WTF I'm not carting about two tonnes of accessories just so I can move an ICEing vehicle ..."

 

[WannabeOwner]

Actually, thinking about it, presumably you could then manoeuvre an ICE into a space that they could not get out of ...

 

[Shock-On-T]

Bucket of glue, paint roller and twenty A4 sheets that say "don't block the charging spot, twat".
Too harsh?

 

[thegruf]

just the one sheet of seriously sticky label applied to the windscreen in drivers line of sight would do it.
no bucket required
Just have fun watching them spend ages scratching it off.

But yeah the (seriously heavy-lol) skates to place ICE nose to tail would also be worth a laugh.

 

[Daniel Wilson]

just the one sheet of seriously sticky label applied to the windscreen in drivers line of sight would do it.
no bucket required
Just have fun watching them spend ages scratching it off.

But yeah the (seriously heavy-lol) skates to place ICE nose to tail would also be worth a laugh.

My work has some great fun but a bit dangerous on a slight hill lol

 

[culverwood]

I was surprised to be blocked at Tesla Heathrow by another S owner who had parked his car on a supercharging space and was not charging but attending to his i-phone. He seemed offended when asked to move to an empty parking space next to it.

 

[Shock-On-T]

My work has some great fun but a bit dangerous on a slight hill lol

You mean:
My work was some. Great fun, but a bit dangerous on a slight hill.
Come on mate, make it easy for the reader!