Yahoo Autos Ferrari F430 Thinks It’s An Electric Car
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EV owners really hate when internal combustion vehicles take charging station spots, like what this Ferrari F430 owner did in Greece. Instead of just parking the red Ferrari in front of the electric car charger, the owner went one step further and insultingly placed the charger through the spokes on his rear wheel.
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Nothing says “I don’t care what you think” more than this. But a member of a Greek EV Facebook group wasn’t amused at all, expressing his outrage that the Ferrari owner thought he and other electric car owners are dumb enough to believe the Italian is in fact an EV.
Sometimes people park in charger stalls because there are no more parking spots and they figure few electric vehicles will be coming to charge. You can have your opinion on that practice, but in this case the guy who posted photos of this offender clarified that there were plenty of open parking spots.
In other words, this wasn’t done out of necessity by the Ferrari owner, but rather to be purposely antagonistic. Some will celebrate his bold move and middle finger to the electrification movement. Others will think he’s a pompous jerk and typical of guys who drive “those kinds of cars.”
We’ve seen similar moves in other countries, including here in the US. Diesel truck owners have parked in EV charger stalls to make a point. People who own a car with green paint park in the “Green Vehicle Parking” spots to be funny.
This practice of parking a regular car in an EV charger spot is what some call ICEing. The term comes from internal combustion engine (ICE) and in some areas there are laws against it. We don’t know if that’s true in Greece, but something tells us if so the Ferrari owner is willing to pay the fine just to irk some electric car fanboys, which he obviously did.
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