---
title: "Tesla Owners Love to Shame Gas Car Drivers Who Park in Supercharger Spots"
description: "Don't let yourself get “ice'd.”"
date: "2016-09-15"
modified: "2016-09-15"
authors:
  - name: "Aaron Brown"
    job_title: "Staff Editor"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/aaron-brown"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/news/5212/tesla-owners-love-to-shame-gas-car-drivers-who-park-in-supercharger-spots"
categories:
  - "Car Tech"
  - "Electric Vehicles"
  - "News"
  - "News by Brand"
tags:
  - "Electric Vehicle"
  - "Tesla"
---

# Tesla Owners Love to Shame Gas Car Drivers Who Park in Supercharger Spots

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Having access to [Tesla's Supercharger stations](<https://www.tesla.com/supercharger>) is one of the most coolest parts of being a Tesla owner. Do gasoline-powered car drivers care? Not really.

Imagine rolling up to the only gas station for 100 miles and finding cars parked at each pump with no drivers in sight. Piss you off? Now you know how Tesla owners feel when they find a gas-powered car parked in one of their Supercharger stalls.

There are currently 4,359 Superchargers open for free use around the world. The chargers allow Tesla drivers to boost their car's batteries while on longer drives. When the Supercharger parking areas are filled with gas cars—whether out of ignorance and malice—it can ruin a Tesla owner's day.

It's so common an occurrence, Tesla owners call it getting "ice'd." Get it? ICE? *Internal* *combustion engine*?

In some states, [blocking electric car chargers is punishable by law](<https://forums.tesla.com/forum/forums/ice-vehicle-ticketed-arizona-supercharger>), but it's rarely enforced.

If you're familiar with the Tesla community, or are active on the Tesla Motors Club forum, on the /r/TeslaMotors subreddit, or on one of the many Facebook Tesla fan groups, you've likely seen this multiple times already. If not, let us embrace you.

It is common practice for Tesla owners to take to the internet, or more specifically to one or more of those communities listed above, to shame a gas car driver who has parked in a Supercharger spot. There's usually a picture, sometimes a quirky caption, and a title that says something like "ICE'd again!"

And for some reason, this trend does not seem like it will be coming to an end any time soon.

These are some of our favorite "icing" posts.

https://twitter.com/_/status/596105394486816768

https://twitter.com/_/status/711283892355858433

https://twitter.com/_/status/719137307434098688

https://twitter.com/_/status/760149493547491328

https://twitter.com/_/status/681224581248630784

[Oh](<https://www.facebook.com/groups/275798909206735/permalink/1017636008356351/>), and [some](<https://www.facebook.com/groups/275798909206735/permalink/1028991643887454/>) [more](<https://www.reddit.com/r/teslamotors/comments/3e7h7o/supercharger_situation_at_a_crowded_rest_stop_in/>).

## Author
Aaron was previously a contributing writer with Jalopnik and has also written for Business Insider covering cars. When he's not in the office writing the news, you'll probably find him thrashing a beater car around a RallyCross.

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