The encounter between a Rivian driver and uninformed Tesla owner highlights ‘a need for better education and communication within the EV community,’ the Rivian driver says.

  • Wrench@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Yep. Tesla charging cords are stupidly short, and are designed to force tesla drivers to back into the space for charging, so when you have several tesla charging, the esthetics is better and looks like you’re in a dealership with all the cars uniformly facing out.

    I get that there are probably better power delivery perks to a short cord. But this is classic “form over function” design that reeks of Musk.

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      8 months ago

      It is objectively safer to park like that (charging or not). Most parking lot accidents happens as someone leaves the parking spot. The risk of accidents when leaving the parking spot is significantly reduced compared to parking front first.

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        8 months ago

        Why was that downvoted, it’s true.

        Backing out of a parking spot is comparatively dangerous, because you can’t see if anyone is approaching from the side.

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          8 months ago

          Because the implication is, that Tesla isn’t doing something bad WRT how they designed the stalls? IDK, anything that’s not bashing Tesla directly seems to get down voted here, even if it’s not actually related specifically to Tesla.