A plugged-in Tesla can still make front page news somewhere

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Newspaper front page shows black Tesla model Y on a small main street plugged into a pole
Local newspaper Ekalaka Eagle thinks it might be the first EV charged in town. | Image: Eric Dietrich / MTFP

A Tesla driver from California thought they could quietly borrow some joules in the EV-barren town of Ekalaka, Montana — population 400 or so — but their Model Y ended up on the front page of the local newspaper, dubbed a UEV (or unidentified electric vehicle). “Borrowed Volts,” read the article title in the Ekalaka Eagle, which mentions that it might be the first electric vehicle ever to charge in the town.

“It was just sitting there, so I plugged in,” the driver told the Montana Free Press.

The port was a NEMA 14-50, the kind often used to power RVs, and despite the passenger’s concern about charging at a random outlet, it was better than their original backup plan of finding a 120-volt plug that might take days to charge the vehicle....

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source https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/31/23813946/tesla-model-y-small-town-ev-charging

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