---
title: "Gasoline Fiends Blocked Every Single Tesla Charger in This Town"
description: "On Sunday, every Tesla Supercharger within 15 miles of Yorktown Heights, NY got ICEd, leaving Tesla drivers unable to charge up."
date: "2019-09-23"
modified: "2019-09-23"
authors:
  - name: "Dan Robitzski"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/danrobitzski"
url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/gasoline-iced-tesla-charger"
categories:
  - "Advanced Transport"
  - "Tesla"
tags:
  - "ice"
  - "supercharger"
  - "tesla"
  - "the digest"
  - "transport"
---

# Gasoline Fiends Blocked Every Single Tesla Charger in This Town

![On Sunday, every Tesla Supercharger within 15 miles of Yorktown Heights, NY got ICEd, leaving Tesla drivers unable to charge up.](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/gasoline-iced-tesla-charger.jpg>)
*\<em\>Image: Tesla/Ford/Tag Simkins-Hartman\</em\>*

## Mass ICEing

On Sunday, gas guzzlers blocked every single Tesla Supercharger in Yorktown Heights, New York in an event they called a "car show."

Blocking a Tesla charging dock with a vehicle is [called ICEing](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/supercharger-iceing-tesla-locks>) — short for "internal combustion engine" — sometimes intended to troll electric vehicle owners. It's unclear what motivated the impromptu mass-ICEing in Yorktown, which was [shared on a Tesla Facebook page](<https://www.facebook.com/TeslaReporter/photos/rpp.1454920498169343/2350135091981208/?type=3&theater>), but the end result was the same: Tesla drivers in the area were effectively cut off from charging access.

## Troll LOLs

ICEing often takes place because drivers want to use the charging stations as parking spaces, but sometimes it's done as a bizarre [protest against Tesla](<https://futurism.com/tesla-superchargers-iceing-trucks>).

It's possible that the car show blockade was all a big misunderstanding — it's unclear whether anyone asked them to move or if some car aficionados simply capitalized on what appeared to be a parking lot's worth of empty spaces.

## Dwindling Resources

Without access to the station, Tesla drivers looking to charge their cars at the Yorktown Heights Superchargers — inexplicably [listed as a California station](<https://www.tesla.com/findus/location/supercharger/yorktownheightssupercharger>) on Tesla's website — would have had to [drive eke out another 14 miles](<https://www.tesla.com/findus?v=2&search=North%20America&bounds=41.49628825815633%2C-73.15648449755861%2C41.022962537196605%2C-74.4631708989258&filters=supercharger&zoom=11&location=yorktownheightssupercharger>) to a charging dock on Ossining, New York.

ICEing is often compared to blocking all the pumps at a gas station. But given the limited infrastructure in place to support electric vehicles, ICEing a Supercharger becomes much more of an inconvenience than losing any one gas station.

**READ MORE:** [From Tesla Reporter Facebook page today. A “car show” ICE’ing every spot at Yorktown Heights Supercharger](<https://www.reddit.com/r/teslamotors/comments/d7v05g/from_tesla_reporter_facebook_page_today_a_car/>) \[Reddit\]

**More on ICEing:** *[Tesla's Anti-ICEing System Just Got an Upgrade](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/iceing-tesla-supercharger-update>)*

## Author
Dan Robitzki is a senior reporter for Futurism, where he likes to cover AI, tech ethics, and medicine. He spends his extra time fencing and streaming games from Los Angeles, California.

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