That occurred to me too. There's a lot of vying to be an "internet star."

There are solar charging stations they are putting in gas stations in nevada. I think you have to pay, but I have seen a lot of them. Of course, run out of juice in the desert and you are SOL/

That is being ignored totally by the media. Plus, I really doubt they are cheaper in the long run. When they are, they will be more popular.

Might be staged.

Its also possible it could have been staged. Never know these days

As a female, to me,this stupidity is unacceptable. Did some rich daddy just give her a car, and she did not know it was electric? When I order a car, I do a lot of research about the car, under the hood included. She might start with the actual carbon footprint of the batteries, start to finish. I imagine the manual is woefully long, no look up three, like a Lexus, over 1,000 pages. All young people are not into cars the way our generation was. Dad and I hit the car lots, when I was still a child, to check out new models, and what they featured. Can you believe she was bond, so fits the stereotype.

There was a case here in CA that was the talk of town for some time.

TESLA signed up a guy to do a demo on the pleasures of driving a Tesla and he was supposed to take a planned route with recharging stations.

But the guy deviated from the course for some reason and he depleted the battery at a spot with no recharging opportunity.

The entire exercise ended up in a bruhaha a red face for Tesla.

I watched a woman at a gas pump very frustrated that the damp nozzle would not fit into her fill hole. She started pumping and it sprayed all over her. I told her to Stop and she got a bit snarky with me, "I know how to do this she exclaimed". I just told her the yellow cover on the nozzle is Diesel fuel and it will not work in your gasoline vehicle which is why it won't fit into the fill hole.

I could see her kicking the car for shocking her!

He He He ... I align perfectly with that braying jack ass and have the same laugh ... and a Z-Score of 2.7. Love it!

I don't disagree, but I have noticed several places around here that give free charging for electric vehicles. As long as you can get there, you can fill up for nothing.

I'd accept that, however once it becomes more popular (if it does), then the "free" will go away, of course.

I prefer a hybrid, though no part of it will accept outside charging.

"(I kind of wonder, though, what she saw on the dashboard that made her think she needed gasoline?)"

Same here. It was my first thought.

I'm with you - especially when one takes into account the limited range of electric vehicles. I live in the Wild West, and there isn't a single one of those I'd want to rely on to get me to my relative's houses - most of which are 400 miles away. Adding several more hours to that drive just to sit and recharge is not on my list of things I want to do.

I was thinking of that, too.

Apparently there was still juice in the battery, otherwise she would not have been able to drive away.

It is an enigma what may have happened there.

As I was watching her saga, I was rooting as to what she may do next? Of course the "dumb blond" analogy comes to everyone's mind, the way she was exhibiting total cluelessness. Obviously she did not own the car. Was it a friend's car? He/she must have told her what it was. Could not have been rental: you get instructions there and I don't know if you can rent Teslas.

Did you see "Titanic"? Remember the scene after Rose is rescued from the outer rail trying to jump, by an officer who states: "Women and machinery don't mix".

Well, I am not a chauvinist pig but sometimes that statement must be true.

LOL!

That was funny, Carl. Thanks.

Yes, the braying was unwanted. They should have blocked the sound.

Other than that, I stand by the video contents.

Me a ye olde dino was thinking of long ago watched comedy skits by Red Skelton, Lucille Ball, Peter Sellers, Benny Hill and Leslie Nielsen.
Monty Python put on twit sketches. They also liked to dress up like ugly silly women, but maybe too many blondes would find a Monty Python dumb blonde skit offensive.
Me dino now thinks of just watching a dumb blonde in real life that would other blondes blush.

I wonder how she knew it needed fuel of some sort? Did it just stop? The lack of a gas gauge should have alerted her that something was different

I dont understand the praying at the tires of an electric vehicle. Energy is energy, and I dont see how generating energy at a power station, transmitting it to your house, refilling batteries, and then using electric motors can possibly be more efficient than an internal combustion engine right there in the car.

Not to mention that when the batteries are empty, you arent going anywhere at all most likely until you get the car towed to a relatively rare charging station. Same thing with a gas car, but there are a LOT of gas stations and you can bring back a supply in a plastic gas can. Cant do that with electricity. Also, it takes awhile to recharge, compared with a minute of so to restart a starved engine.

I agree on the need to know basic things about what you are driving.

I can remember, back in the early 1960s, driving up to a station in a friend's Corvair, and watched the attendant totally mystified as to where the gas cap was (they still had folks who pumped the gas for you back then). I took pity on him after a minute or so, and got out and opened the cap that was next to the driver's door in those early models. There were still people then who were befuddled by Volkswagens that needed to open the "hood" to put gas in.

Its not a big deal. Shows that one should be aware of what they are doing.

you are sounding like an entitled MeToo woman now. Women in general are not as mechanically savvy than men in our culture. You would think that she was "thinking", she would have considered this when she rented the car, if indeed she rented it.

Women in general vote for leftist things for some emotional reason, so I would rather if they would NOT vote actually.

By the way, women seem to love showing how stupid men are, so this is just payback.

IT'S FUNNY!!!...I was hoping she would stick her finger in the plug-in and get a shock!

I know, I'm badddddddddd...........

I have no problem admitting that just for a split-second, I thought that my hybrid would require plugging in at night. Hubby had a good laugh and reminded me that the gasoline engine recharged the batteries, and then we went down to buy it.

Sometimes people just don't think. I thought it was cute, especially her obvious willingness to scout around the car and figure it out, to the hilarity of many. (I kind of wonder, though, what she saw on the dashboard that made her think she needed gasoline?)

Sometimes things are just funny. There's no need to be all PC about it.

We-e-ll, I'm as anti-PC as the next guy, but "braying jackass" was spot on. The nonstop sniggering gets old well before the halfway mark.