n. Anger and frustration caused by a lack of available electric-car charging stations, or by having one's electric car unplugged by a person whose own car needs charging.
2014
The growing popularity of environmentally friendly motoring in America has led to a new phenomenon, "charge rage", as the owners of electric cars compete for places to plug in their cars.
2014
Just three years later, SAP faces a problem that is increasingly common at Silicon Valley companies — far more electric cars than chargers. Sixty-one of the roughly 1,800 employees on the campus now drive a plug-in vehicle, overwhelming the 16 available chargers. And as demand for chargers exceeds supply, a host of thorny etiquette issues have arisen, along with some rare but notorious incidents of "charge rage."
2011 (earliest)
What happens when Brian gets to one of these few charging points and someone else has their car plugged in? If you disconnect their car to charge your car, would you get the equivalent of charge-rage instead of road-rage?