The Mercedes EQS is a technological tour de force for the German automaker. It’s comfortable, luxurious, has a range of 350 miles and is thoroughly worthy of the automaker badge. I also have to park it in a parking space to charge it.
How do you park electric vehicles with a front charging port at a Tesla Supercharger?
There are only a few reasons to back a vehicle into a parking space. You’re the getaway driver from a nearby bank robbery, you’re trying to impress your friends or family with your ability to back between two white lines, or you forgot to pay for a vehicle registration and now your license plates are expired. Since most of us aren’t professional thieves with an uncontrollable need for speed and generally pay our bills on time, we rarely back into a parking space. That has changed with electric vehicles, which, for reasons that escape me, have charging ports on the rear of the vehicle.
This is probably Tesla’s fault. The company has been building electric vehicles with rear-mounted fuel ports since the beginning. But honestly, many automakers have now introduced vehicles with rear-mounted fuel ports that look like they were designed by people who have never tried to reverse park in a crowded shopping mall or are stuck in a gas-powered vehicle mindset.
When you fill up with gas, it’s a pull-through situation. You’re only there for a few minutes. Trying to figure out which side of the vehicle the fuel port is on is really your biggest concern. (Fun fact, on your dash, the fuel pump icon next to the fuel gauge has a little arrow pointing to the side of the vehicle with the gas cap. You’re welcome.)
