Tesla Owner Calls Police on Rivian Driver Using Supercharger - eviltoast
The encounter between a Rivian driver and uninformed Tesla owner highlights 'a need for better education and communication within the EV community,' the Rivian driver says.
  • woelkchen@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    301·
    7 months ago

    Sounds like this guy sucks too unless there were a bunch of spots open or extenuating circumstances.

    I don’t think people driving other brands deliberately want to mess with Tesla’s super short charging cables. It was Tesla who applied to have their plug standardized, so that they don’t have to change their American cars to CCS, now it’s IMO also up to Tesla to fit longer cables to their chargers.

    • Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      85·
      7 months ago

      Tesla’s a dick for opening charging up to other brands without making the cord long enough, but without extenuating circumstances it’s a dick move to take up two spaces to charge (I don’t consider “I don’t want to drive 10 minutes down the road” an extenuating circumstance). It’s not something I would do and it’s not something I would expect the lot owner to just put up with if it was them telling me to move it.

      Again, I want to emphasize the Tesla guy calling 911 is unhinged. That doesn’t mean other parties can’t also be behaving in a sub-ideal way.

      • rdyoung@lemmy.worldEnglish
        27·
        7 months ago

        They aren’t the only one with short cords and gas pumps have had this issue for a long time. The number of people I’ve seen trying to get the nozzle over to the other side of the car is not a small one. I’m fairly certain that this is an issue with all DC chargers, probably because A) that shit is expensive and B) they get really heavy really quickly when you add length.

        It’s clear in these comments how many people have no idea about evs and the chargers.

        • 4am@lemm.eeEnglish
          61·
          7 months ago

          You saw a lot of dumbasses who could just pull up to the gas pump facing the other direction and solve their problem easily

          • rdyoung@lemmy.worldEnglish
            14·
            7 months ago

            Exactly. Are you intentionally pointing out the obvious and repeating my point while also missing the larger point? I think the answer is yes.

            I’ll try to explain one more time. This dorkus and everyone else complaining about the length of the cord have no idea what is going on. DC cords are always short, I could explain why but I’m not sure many would understand. The rivian just like my Ioniq5, my ioniq phev and every other ev on the market has the charging port in one of 2 locations, front or back of the car, usually driver front and passenger rear. This means that the dork in the article didn’t need to parallel park to reach the charger, they could have backed in or pulled in normally and all would have been well.

            The above doesn’t absolve the 911 caller of being an asshat.

            • JasonDJ@lemmy.zipEnglish
              51·
              7 months ago

              I rented a Mustang Mach-E last week and pulled up to a supercharger.

              It wasn’t CCS, id found out, but also I couldn’t have parked close enough inside of one spot to reach the charger.

              And depending on where they are , “driving 10 minutes down the street” might not be an option. Depending on how rural or built-up the area may be, it could easily be dozens of miles away (or out of the way) to the next charger. And it’s probably at some podunk motel or a dealer lot after-hours where you can’t even find a restroom.