Ram truck with Tesla charger in tailpipe shows 'ICE-ing' trend not over
Three-year-old fad sees pickups block EV parking spaces to annoy electric car owners
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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 can’t get those electrons just anywhere, so being blocked access to a charging station is very annoying for EV owners indeed.
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Some have suggested the incidents are often be pulled off by blue-collar pickup truck owners who think they’re, 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 fad’s 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 truck’s tailpipe is about as cool and imaginative as an obnoxious “NOGAS”-type novelty plate on a Tesla.
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