To add insult to injury, the charging cable was tucked inside the Raptor's rear bed
The driver of the ICE truck parked in a clearly-marked EV spot at a shopping center in New Zealand . They even made sure that the charging cable was inaccessible to EV and PHEV owners. This practice is commonly known as ICEing, causing unnecessary tensions between ICE and EV owners. With so many EVs and PHEVs buzzing around, you'd think folks would have gotten used to their existence by now.
This little maneuver clearly shows it wasn't just an innocent mistake. One might have thought they accidentally parked there, but no—this was a deliberate move The green light on the charger indicates that the cable wasn't connected to a charging port, which isn't surprising since the Ranger won't get a plug-in hybrid powertrain option until 2025.
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