A Tesla charging station reportedly vandalized by a drill in Utah – Quartz

A Tesla charging station in St. George, Utah, was reportedly vandalized this week, a Tesla owner reported on Twitter.

Mark Larsen, owner of Tesla Model 3 in Utah, read Friday on a forum that the charging station may have been vandalized, and went to check it himself, reports Electrek. He found that the load plugs had been pierced and that one cable had been damaged.

As we reported last month, anti-Tesla "protests" seem to be on the rise. Several cases of "ICE-ing", in which people park their fossil fuel-powered vehicles at designated EV charging sites to prevent anyone from using them, have been documented on Reddit and elsewhere. (The I, C and E in "ICE-ing" come from the "internal combustion engine".)

In an incident at a North Carolina convenience store called Sheetz, Leicina, a Reddit user, reported that several pickup trucks had stopped to block all the sites of a Tesla charging station.

The problem is widespread enough that some cities and states are pbading laws banning this practice (until now, Florida, California, Oregon, Mbadachusetts, Illinois, and the United States). Washington State are among the countries with rules).