Who’da Thought? Tesla Owners Acting Like Real Jerks at Cow Hollow 24-Hour Charging Station
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- Feb 20, 2026
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Of course this has also provided another occasion for stereotyping Tesla owners, in the post Elon-in-the-White-House era.
“Tesla owners are arrogant as hell,” says Laurel Calsoni, a neighbor who lives near the lot, speaking to SFGate. “They think they are at their ‘Own Private Idaho’ out there.”
It’s a combination of loud music, apparent line-cutting among the Tesla drivers who then quarrel with one another, and a great deal of horn-honking. Making matters worse, the station has two-way entrances on both Lombard and Moulton streets, making for chaotic entry and exit patterns to the lot.
SFGate points to a charging station review site called Plugshare, where one reviewer writes that the station “Gets extremely crowded at night when the cost is lower. The entrances are poorly designed and there's cars coming from multiple directions, leading to a lot of confusion about who's next. Witnessed lots of arguing and line cutting while I was here.”
Neighbors have complained to the SF Planning Department, and to the district’s Supervisor Stephen Sherrill.
“I’ve heard and appreciate the concerns raised by residents along Moulton Street,” Sherrill told SFGate. “While conversations are ongoing and it’s too early to speak to specific interventions, my team is working closely with the property owner, the Planning Department, and SFMTA to identify solutions that address increased traffic on Moulton Street and evening noise, while allowing the electric vehicle charging station to continue serving the community.”
Not unlike with self-driving robotaxis, these unanticipated skirmishes and conflicts may just be a part of San Francisco serving as the petri dish for new automotive technologies. But add to this the fact that Teslas tend to be purchased by people with, ummm, certain “personality types,” and you can see why being the new frontier of 21st Century burdens some of San Francisco with unintended consequences that the electric car manufacturers didn’t see coming, and might perhaps just prefer to ignore.
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