“The electricity is one of our bigger issues that we’re dealing with in making sure that not only the public, but the firefighters are safe,” Chief McCurdy said. “So, we kept our distance from the charged electrical equipment.”
Police said seven charging stations sustained heavy damage. No one was hurt.
“Littleton Police and Fire Departments and the Massachusetts State Police Fire and Explosion Investigation Unit attached to the State Fire Marshal’s Office are investigating and have determined that the fire appears to have been intentionally set,” Littleton police said.
Reminder that non-Tesla cars use Tesla chargers and vice-versa. This is going to hurt people who don’t even drive Teslas. Charges are hard enough to come by as-is.
That is only kinda true. A couple companies can charge at Tesla stations (Ford, Rivian, and I believe one more I can’t remember), but most other cars cannot. And even if you can, you’ll likely need an adapter since Tesla only has J3400 (formerly NACS) chargers. Only the freshest of fresh cars (besides Teslas) have J3400 ports. Most use CCS, and those are not hard to come by anymore. Take a look at plugshare.com. Even middle of nowhere states like Kansas have predominantly CCS chargers spaced close enough for most vehicles to road trip through them. You can filter out the Tesla plug type and filter for 100kWh speeds and see.
Gone are the days Tesla had the only good infrastructure
Chevy just released adapters for their EVs to use Tesla chargers, and it even works on older models
Yeah, I thought it might be them, but was not sure. Also looks like some smaller volume EV makers (small EV volume, not small total volume of cars) like Nissan, Volvo, and Mercedes can now too. That still leaves out Kia/Hyundai which is the third highest volume EV maker (Tesla, Chevy, then Kia). Still, doesn’t negate the fact that Tesla is not longer the only kid on the block. We will also see a shift of J3400 non Tesla branded chargers soon, since it is now and SAE standard
And yet their existence allows non-Tesla EVs to function, thus reducing oil dependency and saving the planet. There’s simply not enough EV chargers out there to be picky with chargers. I think that not buying a Tesla but using their chargers when necessary is a happy compromise until other companies step up to fill the charging gap.
I’m somewhat ambivalent about this … on the one hand, Musk bad. One the other hand, arson bad. On the third hand, destroying equipment that allows people to escape fossil fuels, also bad. I get the motivations, but this isn’t activism, it’s destruction.
Electric cars are just greenwashing for the upper class to feel good about themselves while not doing a single fucking thing to curb their materialism. Electric cars saved the auto industry they’re not saving the earth.
EVs are a stepping stone towards getting rid of fossil fuels, which is another stepping stone towards “saving the Earth”. Going back, puts us farther away from the goal.
These guys are wrong. They just randomly burst into flames. Bad manufacturing. No one saw anything. It was a short, just like the one in xelons head.
It would neat if this administration beings the return of Jury nullification
cc: @Greg@lemmy.ca; it turns out it is in fact quite vulnerable infrastructure
Wow, burning them is quite the statement and will put the station out of commission for a while.
Oh no.
