Have you been 'ICE'd'? Drivers promote electric car parking etiquette
Blink, an electric car charging network, has developed printable notices that electric car drivers can use to inform gas drivers when their cars occupy spots reserved for electric cars, Voelcker writes.
Blink, an electric car charging network, has developed printable notices that electric car drivers can use to inform gas drivers when their cars occupy spots reserved for electric cars, Voelcker writes.
It's called in shorthand "being ICEd," meaning that an Internal-Combustion Engined car has parked in a space reserved for plug-in electric聽cars.
What to do about it is the subject of much discussion among electric-car owners.
Now charging network Blink is offering at least a partial solution.
The company has put up on its website three different聽printable notices聽that can be placed under the wiper of the offending gasoline cars, pointing out to their drivers the error of their ways.
(Click聽here聽to download Blink courtesy notices.)
They range in tone from relatively polite to somewhat aggressive, with three different headlines:
- You have ICEd* me!
- Did you know you鈥檙e parked in an electricvehicle聽only parking spot?
- You obviously know nothing about electric vehicles.
Along similar lines, Jack Brown-the owner of a BMW ActiveE electric car--posted a聽notice that simulates a traffic ticket聽to the ActiveE Facebook group.
We rather like the title of the official-looking document: "Notice of Inconsideration."
If you're an electric car driver, what tactics do you use when a charging spot is taken up by a gasoline car without a plug?