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The headlines are fast ans furious these days. You can't make this stuff up:
Irate family called police on Jennifer Granholm's team for blocking charging station spot for her electric car
"The four-day trip from North Carolina to Tennessee was "intended to draw attention to the billions of dollars the White House is pouring into green energy and clean cars."
Granholm's ambitious southern trip that was "painstakingly mapped out ahead of time to allow for charging," however, drew the ire of one family in particular, due to a familiar problem for electric car vehicle drivers.
"But between stops, Granholm's entourage at times had to grapple with the limitations of the present," NPR's Camila Domonoske, who accompanied her on the trip, wrote. After Granholm's staff realized there weren't enough charging spots for electric vehicles at a stop near Augusta, Ga., "an Enerfy Department staffer tried parking a nonelectric vehicle by one of those working chargers to reserve a spot for the approaching secretary of energy."
"That did not go down well: a regular gas-powered car blocking the only free spot for a charger?" Domonoske continued.
"In fact, a family that was boxed out — on a sweltering day, with a baby in the vehicle — was so upset they decided to get the authorities involved," she explained. "They called the police."
Irate family called police on Jennifer Granholm's team for blocking charging station spot for her electric car
"The four-day trip from North Carolina to Tennessee was "intended to draw attention to the billions of dollars the White House is pouring into green energy and clean cars."
Granholm's ambitious southern trip that was "painstakingly mapped out ahead of time to allow for charging," however, drew the ire of one family in particular, due to a familiar problem for electric car vehicle drivers.
"But between stops, Granholm's entourage at times had to grapple with the limitations of the present," NPR's Camila Domonoske, who accompanied her on the trip, wrote. After Granholm's staff realized there weren't enough charging spots for electric vehicles at a stop near Augusta, Ga., "an Enerfy Department staffer tried parking a nonelectric vehicle by one of those working chargers to reserve a spot for the approaching secretary of energy."
"That did not go down well: a regular gas-powered car blocking the only free spot for a charger?" Domonoske continued.
"In fact, a family that was boxed out — on a sweltering day, with a baby in the vehicle — was so upset they decided to get the authorities involved," she explained. "They called the police."