Ram truck with Tesla charger in tailpipe shows ‘ICE-ing’ trend not over – Driving

A Ram 1500 with an American flag decal and a I identify as a Prius tailgate sticker was snapped ICE-ing a Tesla charging station early this month, suggesting the trend has not yet completely gone away.

ICE-ing involves deliberately parking an internal-combustion-engine (ICE) vehicle in front of a public electric car charging space, keeping EVs from filling up there.

Electric vehicles cant get those electrons just anywhere, so being blocked access to a charging station is very annoying for EV owners indeed.

Some have suggested the incidents are often be pulled off by blue-collar pickup truck owners who think theyre, in a manner of speaking, sticking it to the proverbial EV man. The (unsurprisingly) politically incorrect I identify as a Prius sticker on this truck seems to underscore the odds of that possibility.

In the fads heyday a few years ago, photographs of ICE-ing incidents sparked outrage across social media, with people arguing both for and against it. These days, more than anything it seems like a plea for attention, since, largely, nobody cares.

At this point, putting an EV charger in your trucks tailpipe is about as cool and imaginative as an obnoxious NOGAS-type novelty plate on a Tesla.

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