fill 'er up

“Few people, it seems, think the added expense and trouble of purchasing special charging equipment, having lengthy charging sessions of 10 hours or more and not being able to drive into a gas station and say ‘fill ‘er up’ is worth the trouble of an EV,” Mr. Jones said.

She picked up a yellow highlighter and scribbled out the inapplicable section on the contract, emphasizing the main point of renting a Tesla: to not have to fill ’er up.

“Learning again to say ‘Fill ’er up’ is like learning a phrase in a foreign language,” wrote Robert Mahaffay, the Times reporter who’d authored all those letters.

“You’ll drive up to the pump and say, ‘Fill ‘er up, buddy,’ and he’ll say, ‘I am very sorry, there isn’t any.'”

“Fill ’er up,” she told a team of stagehands, many of whom wore rubber boots.