Highway rage has been round for some time. A more recent phenomenon that’s cropping up is EV charging rage — the sensation when a fellow EV proprietor cuts the road to seize one of many solely working cost ports.
It’s frequent sufficient that folks posted altercations between EV drivers on social media and forums. In at the least one case, the EV charging rage turned deadly.
In response to this rage, and particularly to a fight that broke out at a packed Supercharger station, Tesla introduced in a post on X this week it might begin digital queuing pilots within the second quarter at “choose websites.”
“Aim is a web buyer expertise enchancment for the ~1% instances of a wait time,” reads the publish, which doesn’t point out the widespread situation of wait occasions or that Tesla homeowners have introduced up the thought for a queue system in homeowners boards and social media.
Tesla mentioned it might implement a wider rollout this 12 months if the suggestions is constructive.
“We additionally proceed to broaden the community 20%+ year-over-year, carefully monitoring site-level demand,” Tesla’s X publish reads.
It’s not clear if drivers of EVs that aren’t made by Tesla could have entry to this queue system from the beginning. A number of automakers, together with GM, Ford, Nissan, and Lucid, have already gained access to Tesla’s Supercharger network.
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