{"id":49546,"date":"2023-08-25T10:00:43","date_gmt":"2023-08-25T15:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=49546"},"modified":"2023-08-23T20:08:40","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T01:08:40","slug":"car-week-hybrids-that-camp-ev-spots-are-dicks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=49546","title":{"rendered":"Car Week: Hybrids that camp EV spots are dicks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"border-image alignnone wp-image-49547 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/hybrid_van_charge.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/hybrid_van_charge.jpg 560w, https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/hybrid_van_charge-300x139.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The parking garage in my office has six EV spots.\u00a0 There\u2019s a sign on the zone that states that those who park in them are limited to four hours of charging at a time, but the thing is that there\u2019s no enforcement of it whatsoever, so basically it amounts to rockstar parking for those who are fortunate enough to get to the building early enough to be able to camp one.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The thing is, it\u2019s low-key become assigned parking for the same cars on a daily basis, and it\u2019s become very clear on whom has what days as remote days, because they\u2019re not in, but someone else is.\u00a0 I\u2019ve only gotten to park in one of them maybe like three times, and on two of those times, I strategically went outside during lunchtime to see if anyone had left and immediately moved my car to get one, but for the most part, it\u2019s the same group of cars that camp them, not because they actually need them, but because they\u2019re close parking spots in the grand spectrum of the property.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">On most days, there are three Teslas who appear to arrive early enough to where they always park in the same spots.\u00a0 Then there\u2019s this one Nissan Leaf who reminds me of when Gilfoyle got that weird electric motor scooter so he could fuck with Dinesh when he got his Tesla, because they always camp the fourth spot.\u00a0 The fifth spot is usually occupied by an Audi Q4 e-tron on most days, but some other Nissan Leaf on the days when Audi person must be remote.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">But it\u2019s the sixth spot that is the impetus to this post, because it\u2019s there just about every single day, but it\u2019s a Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid (a minivan).\u00a0 Obviously meaning it is powered by both electric <em>and<\/em> petrol, and doesn\u2019t necessarily need to be plugged in order for it to survive the next time the driver hops in.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Honestly, the first time I saw it, I didn\u2019t know that it was a hybrid and I figured it was some idiot driver who didn\u2019t realize the spots were EV spots, but then as I walk past it, I see that the power cable is plugged into it.\u00a0 But then I see that it\u2019s a hybrid, and I\u2019m like wtf?\u00a0 That\u2019s how I knew this was a behavior I found unappealing, because it didn\u2019t concern me whatsoever considering how little I actually drive the Tesla into work, but it still annoyed me.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Seriously though, I just feel like this is a dick move for the hybrid car to camp the EV spot, just because it&#8217;s capable of using it.\u00a0 When I got my Tesla, prior to getting the charger installed at my home, I actually needed the spot at work to keep my car charged, and even that wasn\u2019t enough.\u00a0 I still had to go find superchargers to keep it topped off until we had our home charger installed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Frankly, ever since getting the home charger installed, I\u2019m seldom in a position where I even need public charging.\u00a0 I also imagine most of the people who have their own EVs probably have chargers at home, because the chargers at work are like, 2 kW, and even in an eight hour charge session, I\u2019m lucky to get like 30% of battery life from it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Honestly, it\u2019s not just the hybrid that\u2019s being a dick about using the EV spots, it\u2019s basically everyone else who camps them on a daily basis as personal parking who are all being dicks.\u00a0 I\u2019m pretty sure the EV spots were really designed to be in-a-pinch charging options for people who actually need to use them to charge, and not peoples\u2019 private assigned parking spots.\u00a0 This isn\u2019t just applicable to my office\u2019s parking garage, but everywhere where there\u2019s EV parking.\u00a0 Especially shopping centers where they have a handful EV spots as literally the first spots closest to the business, even ahead of handicapped spaces.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">In conclusion, EV drivers are dicks.\u00a0 Yep, we\u2019re all dicks.\u00a0 DICKS<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The parking garage in my office has six EV spots.\u00a0 There\u2019s a sign on the zone that states that those who park in them are limited to four hours of charging at a time, but the thing is that there\u2019s no enforcement of it whatsoever, so basically it amounts to rockstar parking for those who &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=49546\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Car Week: Hybrids that camp EV spots are 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