--- title: "Watch Police Drag Away Truck That ICEd Tesla Driver" description: "A Ford pickup truck was airlifted from a parking lot in Berlin after it was blocking (or ICEing) a dedicated Tesla electric vehicle charging stall." date: "2019-11-12" modified: "2019-11-12" authors: - name: "Victor Tangermann" job_title: "Senior Editor" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/victor" url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/pickup-iceing-tesla-car-charging-spot" categories: - "Advanced Transport" - "Tesla" tags: - "electric cars" - "pickup" - "tesla" - "the digest" --- # Watch Police Drag Away Truck That ICEd Tesla Driver ![A Ford pickup truck was airlifted from a parking lot in Berlin after it was blocking (or ICEing) a dedicated Tesla electric vehicle charging stall.]() *\Image: Polizei Berlin via Twitter\* ## Mr. Cool ICE As electric cars are becoming more and more common, cities are making small changes to infrastructure to accommodate them, from dedicated charging stations to [replacing fuel pumps]() with chargers at gas stations. But not everybody is cooperating with those infrastructure shifts. Police used a crane to lift an enormous Ford pickup truck away from a parking spot in Berlin this week, after it was found to be blocking a dedicated electric vehicle charging stall, [*Teslarati* reports](). ## Supercharge It's the latest example of a troubling trend called [ICEing](), a term that refers to internal combustion engine-powered cars protesting electric vehicles by parking their cars in charging spots. Gas guzzlers have waged this war for [almost a year]() now, sometimes blocking chargers in [entire towns]() and leading organizers of popular car meetup Cars & Coffee to recently [plead with their participants]() to leave Tesla Superchargers open. ## Airlifted Some more assertive hoodlums have taken to keying the sides of Tesla vehicles. Fortunately, some have been caught on camera thanks to the vehicle's "Sentry Mode," and in [more than one]() instance, the perpetrators decided in the end to [turn themselves in]() after the videos of them caught in the act went viral. "Had the big blue \[Ford pickup\] actually tapped the charging station, the surrounding households would have probably lost power," reads a tongue-in-cheek tweet by Berlin's police force over the weekend. https://twitter.com/polizeiberlin/status/1193158620873138176 **READ MORE:** [Tesla owner gets ICE’d by Ford pickup but soon helped by a Police crane truck]() \[*Teslarati*\] **More on ICEing:** *[Pickup Truck Driver Turns Himself In After Vandalizing Tesla]()* ## Author I've been at Futurism since 2017, where my role has evolved to encompass design, writing, and increasingly editing. I've always been fascinated by space exploration and advanced transportation, which I've leaned into by interviewing luminaries in those fields while closely following the dimensions of policy and regulation that allow next-generation projects to succeed -- or, sometimes, to fail. I'm also keenly interested in the effects of generative AI on society, policies, and democratic institutions, as well as clean energy, physics and biology, and the vagaries of tech leadership. My work for Futurism has been cited by publications including Ars Technica, Gizmodo, PC Magazine, Jalopnik, Fox News, and the New York Post. I spent my childhood living in locations including Manila, the Philippines, and Geneva, Switzerland, attended McGill University, and now live in Toronto, Canada. Before Futurism I worked at AskMen and a small photography studio. In my free time, I'm an avid gardener, foodie, and craft beer lover, as well as a maker of artisanal hot pepper sauces. I have a magnificent dog named Freida. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()