A FRUSTRATED EV owner has been stranded in their Tesla once again, prompting them to sell it after a towing bill that cost nearly $1,000.
Being stranded regardless of the propulsion method used can be an incredibly stressful and expensive venture.
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Bianca, a Tesla Model S owner, found that out the hard way and shared her experience in a video on her TikTok (@bxxiancaa).
It was the second time that she'd been left frustrated by her EV.
Bianca said she was vacationing in California along the Pacific Coast Highway and stopped to admire the views along the highway.
When she returned to her Tesla, she couldn't get it to start.
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"When your Tesla won't start and you're stranded on the absolute edge of California for five hours and have to get towed back to civilization," Bianca wrote in text over the clip.
In the caption, she said that not only was it an expensive towing bill, it also wasn't the first time she was stranded by the car.
"I wish I could say this was the first time Tesla failed us in areas with minimal service," she wrote.
"$968 in towing later. She is getting sold."
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In the comments section, Bianca was careful to mention that the stranding had nothing to do with charging.
"As you all try to roast me in the comments, no this was not a charging problem," she wrote.
One user wrote that they're happy they weren't convinced to buy a Tesla after hearing similar stories.
"I keep hearing these stories of Tesla," they wrote.
"So glad I didn't get lured into the hype."
Another Californian viewer said Bianca's Tesla wasn't the first they saw stranded.
"I was driving the Sonoma coast two weeks ago and saw two other Teslas broken down," they said.
Someone else recounted a time a similar scenario happened to their friend on a road trip.
"That happened to my friend in the middle of the night driving home from Vegas in the middle of nowhere," they wrote.
As her caption stated, it wasn't the first time the car was unresponsive.
She previously posted a video saying that she had to have her car towed from Big Bear Lake back to Los Angeles.
It was a 100-mile trip, according to her video, and a two-hour delay.
The two videos were posted a little over two months apart, showing that for Bianca, they were fairly back-to-back incidents.
A commenter asked if there weren't any chargers in Big Bear Lake, and she replied that there were - and the issue with her car had nothing to do with charging or range.
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"We had enough miles, sadly the car just wasn't responsive," she said.
The U.S. Sun has gone to Tesla for comment.
