Plug-in hybrid stands on electric parking lot - and gets cheeky message

Created: 04/08/2022, 10:44 am

By: Sebastian Oppenheimer

Someone wanted to complain to a jeep driver who was standing in an electric car parking lot with a note – but the angry message was an own goal.

USA – Motorists keep finding angry messages on their cars.

In many cases, it revolves around the issue of parking - such as a Honda that occupied four parking spaces or a BMW that blocked the sidewalk.

However, the anger of the note-writer is not justified in every case, as a recent social media post shows.

This is reported by 24auto.de.

The driver of a plug-in hybrid who was parked in an e-parking lot received this cheeky message.

© Reddit (5dogs0problems)

Plug-in hybrid stands on electric parking lot - and gets cheeky message

The debate as to whether electric cars or vehicles with internal combustion engines represent the "true" mode of transportation has been going on bitterly online for years.

Sometimes the hostile parties even attack each other in reality.

There is a form of deliberate air pollution specifically practiced in the USA, which is called "rolling coal".

Diesel vehicles are converted in such a way that they produce a particularly "sooty" exhaust cloud.

The target of such "rolling coal" attacks are primarily e-vehicles, as a Tesla driver in the US state of New York found out.

There have also been other disgust attacks: in Munich, a charging station was smeared with minced meat.

Jeep Driver Gets Cheeky Message: 'This Parking Lot Is For Electric Vehicles, You Dumbass'

In the case of a Jeep driver in the USA, it was "only" a cheeky message that she found on her car: "This parking lot is for electric vehicles, you idiot," said the note.

The off-road vehicle driver posted a photo of it on the Reddit platform.

Because: Your car is an electric vehicle - even if not a purely battery-electric one, but a plug-in hybrid.

The Jeep Wrangler 4xe has an output of around 380 hp and, according to the website, a purely electric range of up to 53 kilometers.

According to the woman, the car needed to be charged - and was even plugged in while the clerk left his note on the car.

In fact, combustion vehicles keep blocking charging stations – the English-speaking electric community even has its own term for the phenomenon: “ICEing”.

However, this has nothing to do with the well-known German express train or with the cold.

ICE stands for "Internal Combustion Engine".

The e-car maker Tesla is now using a special technique to combat “illegal parkers” on its superchargers.