Six-hour queues show what it’s really like owning a Tesla at Christmas
Tesla owners were having a truly British Christmas this year by queuing for hours to charge their electric cars.
Several snaking queues have been spotted up and down the UK over the last few days.
Nearly two dozen cars were logjammed at a charging point in a Waitrose parking lot in the Hertfordshire village of South Mims on Christmas Day.
One TikTok user said the Tesla owners were waiting around one hour to charge their cars at the station.
They said: ‘Here they all are queueing up, waiting for an hour or whatever it is for their charging. They’re everywhere.’
Another TikTok video showed countless Tesla vehicles clogging the Tebay Southbound supercharger in Penrith, Cumbria, by the M6 Junction yesterday.
On Twitter, a Tesla car owner parked in Penrith said: ‘Really upsetting to have whole family wait for two hours to charge car.’
In Westmorland, north-west England, an electric vehicle driver said the scene at a motorway charging station was ‘bedlam’.
‘Two-hour 30-minute wait for a charge,’ he said. ‘Worst journey as (a) Tesla driver. Q now 40 deep!’
A Manchester-based user shared a photo of a dizzying queue of Teslas yesterday.
‘UK services this week have been insanely busy for Tesla charging.
‘Currently car 15 in a queue of over 20 … but you can always rely on the British public to make an orderly queue.’
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