Probably a drug dealer.
My lib ass sister (who I still love) is thinking of getting a Telsa but doesn't know if she can get a charger station installed at her place. I was like, sis, just run a cable out of the kitchen window like my man down the street!
Amateur. In Poland we do this, you would be surprised how often you need to plug in your industrial concrete mixer to a laptop.
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In South Africa we just connect to the electricity (when there are no rolling electricity blackouts) illegally with a mess of wires.
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One of my friends figured out how to charge shit off one of the highway street lights. He’s still alive apparently.
Sometimes when I'm working on my novel at the coffee shop I need to mix up some fucking concrete!
Just picturing a guy with one of those hand crank USB phone chargers next to a Tesla furiously winding the crank
Coming full circle from those old timey cars that had a hand crank at the front to start the engine
I saw a picture once of a guy running an extension cord out of his second or third story apartment window, snaked through the tree branches, down to charge his Tesla parked on the street.
I've seen this with a BMW i3. The chord was hanging off a balcony from a recently built block of apartments.
Amazing that they didn't build ev charging into the infrastructure.
A fancy charger station charges way faster. But a standard A/C cable can work.
Going to go down to the tesla dealership and torture the sales guys with questions like "why doesn't it have USB-C?" and "Well my phone can charge wirelessly, why can't this thing?"
they could be making extra money charging for the power but that would be providing an actual service and therefore would never occur to a landlord
[CW: body horror] imagining a bird melting on top of an improperly installed EV induction charging station.
I know, how long is it taking this dude to charge his car? 9 hours?
Full charge on level 1 is like 40 hours lol. If you're driving like 40-50km a day like most people you can top it up enough overnight though
Turns out.. it’s 3 miles per hour with the normal ass wall plug. More than double if you got the big A/C adapter. Even faster if you got ones that need a technician to install.
I like to think drug dealers have higher standards and more self-respect than that tbh.
I’m a drug dealer and I have higher standards but absolutely no self-respect.
Might also be a lease for ridesharing. Uber has a fleet.
I remember seeing a Tesla out the front of a guy's house where he had a bucket over where the extension cords connected to protect them from the rain
Take a picture and tag it "terrible life decisions", because in 5 years the house's value will fluctuate around 20%, but the Tesla's value (if it still exists) will drop 80%.
An issue I could see with fully electric cars is if there's a power outage during say...a natural disaster where you may wanna pack up that car and evacuate. That and at least with gas you pay when you fill it, having to basically pay for all your gas at once along with your power at the end of the month when thst bill comes along would suck, and if your power is cut off you can't drive
Gas vs electric has pretty similar range these days, and most people are going to keep their car "topped up" with charge every night at home vs going to a gas station when you're empty. If there is a natural disaster and the power's off, how are you getting gas out of the underground fuel tanks?
In the case of societal collapse, an EV can charge with a solar setup for years, who's delivering your fuel?
buy a generator then. Chances are it's still more fuel efficient than an ICE lol.
I don't even have a car or license anyway, so as far as my personal concerns are it's moot
Some years back everyone around here suddenly bought electric cars because of the big discount it got them on electric bills. Considering how many people were growing weed in the house/garage, it ended up being a major subsidy. People that weren't growing but had electric cars, could even sell the right to use their VIN number on someone else's electric bill (for like $500).
