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#41 ·
mxs said:
Well, I was going to quickly reply that, surely no, the key must be in vicinity or car left unlocked, which is not something you would obviously do elsewhere than home, but …. I actually went to test it and to my surprise, yes, you can push the pin regardless whether car is locked or not and whether you have a key on you or not … so, you are correct, anyone can push the pin and unplug you, if they know about it.

Now, the million dollar question ….. is this a feature by design, or another bug? I can see it could be argued either way….🤷🏼‍♂️
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ha oh well. Not a huge concern for me really but a little odd. Wonder how much of an engineering challenge it would have been to make the manual release keyed to the backup key in the fob or something like that.
 
#42 ·
Not a concern for me either … I would rather have a way to release a stuck plug than not … but, I still am not sure whether this would work with car power being down. I doubt it, because it’s a motorized release.
 
#43 ·
Katherine Birchenough said:
Thanks to everyone, but none of that worked.
I talked to "Central Command" via the connect button several times yesterday, and a young woman told me this: there is a tiny button at the 12 o'clock position above the charger socket that you can press with a tool such as a screwdriver to release it. It worked. However, now my car will not charge. Either the charger end of the cable is fried, or it's the car 😩
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bummer! you had mentioned that your circuit breaker had tripped before .. do you know why? Ordinarily it shouldn't. I wonder if the car's charger was having some type of issue and on its way out when it caused the breaker to trip before the failure? Anyway, are you able to charge the car at a DC charging station (EA, etc), does that work?
 
#44 ·
My delivered-as-failed OBC is scheduled to be repaired/replaced next week. 6 weeks from diagnosis. Been charging from public 50 kW DC while picking groceries and 225 kW on the road and haven't really needed home charging. My dysfunctional OBC trips a 16 A circuit breaker or two no matter what amperage setting on the car or on my 3-phase 11 kW wall box. Even with the Polestar single phase 8 A granny adapter - relays clunking for a few seconds as the car is thinking and then - trip goes the breaker.
 
#46 ·
I am not worry about it, I don’t have a use case leaving my car charging in public unattended anyways. It was someone else who thought about it from security point of view.

It would be interesting to know how other EV Manufacturers go about it. I don’t even know how my previous EV dealt with it. It just never came up, because it probably never happened to anyone, or at least I have not heard about it.
 
#47 ·
JRRF said:
Who's going to know this other than another P2 owner? And then only a subset of them. When P2s become as prevalent as Accords maybe you'll need to worry 😆
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People who want to steal or mess with EVs? Presumably all EVs have this. Again not really worried personally but just wondering, since it has this security measure for a reason (my salesperson even claimed “the cable locks so you don’t have to worry about anyone messing with it if you leave it unattended while charging”)
 
#48 ·
Milo427 said:
People who want to steal or mess with EVs? Presumably all EVs have this. Again not really worried personally but just wondering, since it has this security measure for a reason (my salesperson even claimed “the cable locks so you don’t have to worry about anyone messing with it if you leave it unattended while charging”)
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In the US it has less to do with your cable since our public chargers have their own cables.
 
#51 ·
JRRF said:
Are you interested in swiping another cable?? In Europe public chargers make use of your own cable. I'm sure you can get one there.
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I’m not particularly concerned about this happening to me for a variety of reasons but the concern would be vandalism like the equivalent of sugar in a gas tank. Or just someone interrupting the charge, perhaps to charge their own vehicle in a crowded charger situation. Again I think I only think of it because my salesperson pointed it out as something that couldn’t happen because of the security feature, but now it seems like technically it could happen pretty easily.
 
#60 ·
JRRF said:
Who's going to know this other than another P2 owner? And then only a subset of them. When P2s become as prevalent as Accords maybe you'll need to worry 😆
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Bingo. Even Polestar owners didn’t know about this (not easily seen/accessible)….and even if they did, so what? They unplug the power cable from the car and you loose some charging time (Speaking only about fast charging stations like EA…they aren’t walking off with the cable…at least not in the US). I fail to see why anybody in the US would be concerned about this?
 
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