This Charging Station will Self Destruct (your EV!)

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Ummm. Wow. Be careful where you plug in please.

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I had a similar experience a coupla months ago. My neighbor had just bought the electric Mustang, and my old F-150 was giving me problems, so my neighbor (who was a little timid with all the power on the 'Stang) offered to let me use his to get to work. It was great driving to, but the battery was on 22% by the time I got to work at TeleDyne. Problem is, I usually have a couple of drinks with the guys after work on Fridays, but one of my buddies brought a bottle of this killer tequila called Cabo Wabo, and since his wife was pissed he bought it, he wanted to just be done with it that night. We all had multiple shots, polished it off, and decided to go to the local fair to blow off some steam. Six of us piled into the 'lectric horse, with a few more driving some other piece of shit I can't even remember. After losing a coupla shots on the Gravitron Vomitron, the group was getting a little loud for my taste, so to we decided to buy another bottle of tequila to mellow everyone out. After that, the responsible thing to do was to refuel before getting the car back to my neighbor. It never occurred to me to go to a charging station, we just pulled up to an Arco and my buddies told me "We got this". After multiple attempts, they sprayed gasoline all over the charging port, then somehow jammed the hose into the port and left it there. The damn thing musta shorted out or something, because the next thing I remember, sparks are flying and the Mustang is on fucking fire. On FIRE. Everyone is panicking, and it's somehow my fault for letting a bunch of drunks gas up the Mustang. Sheez. By now, the car is fully engulfed. I'm only about eight blocks from home, so I just walked the rest of the way and left all those dickheads there. Then, my neighbor gets in my face because "I didn't bring his bitchin' new car home." I tell him to lighten up, it's just a car, and he tries to sucker punch me. Seems to me I'm the injured party here, since I got a really messed up finger where I slammed the door on my finger. Tell me, AITA?
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It's like the "Hotel California" of charging stations - You can plug in, but you can never leave!
Apparently EA offered to chop off the cable and let them go on their way but the trucks had blown their explosive fuses and were bricked.
 

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I had a similar experience a coupla months ago. My neighbor had just bought the electric Mustang, and my old F-150 was giving me problems, so my neighbor (who was a little timid with all the power on the 'Stang) offered to let me use his to get to work. It was great driving to, but the battery was on 22% by the time I got to work at TeleDyne. Problem is, I usually have a couple of drinks with the guys after work on Fridays, but one of my buddies brought a bottle of this killer tequila called Cabo Wabo, and since his wife was pissed he bought it, he wanted to just be done with it that night. We all had multiple shots, polished it off, and decided to go to the local fair to blow off some steam. Six of us piled into the 'lectric horse, with a few more driving some other piece of shit I can't even remember. After losing a coupla shots on the Gravitron Vomitron, the group was getting a little loud for my taste, so to we decided to buy another bottle of tequila to mellow everyone out. After that, the responsible thing to do was to refuel before getting the car back to my neighbor. It never occurred to me to go to a charging station, we just pulled up to an Arco and my buddies told me "We got this". After multiple attempts, they sprayed gasoline all over the charging port, then somehow jammed the hose into the port and left it there. The damn thing musta shorted out or something, because the next thing I remember, sparks are flying and the Mustang is on fucking fire. On FIRE. Everyone is panicking, and it's somehow my fault for letting a bunch of drunks gas up the Mustang. Sheez. By now, the car is fully engulfed. I'm only about eight blocks from home, so I just walked the rest of the way and left all those dickheads there. Then, my neighbor gets in my face because "I didn't bring his bitchin' new car home." I tell him to lighten up, it's just a car, and he tries to sucker punch me. Seems to me I'm the injured party here, since I got a really messed up finger where I slammed the door on my finger. Tell me, AITA?
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If I had a dollar for everytime I caught an EV on fire at a gas station after drinking...
 


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It's like the "Hotel California" of charging stations - You can plug in, but you can never leave!
definitely NOT followed by "life in the fast lane"..... :cool:
 

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After losing a coupla shots on the Gravitron Vomitron, the group was getting a little loud for my taste, so to we decided to buy another bottle of tequila to mellow everyone out.
You had me going until you used Tequila to “mellow” everyone out.
 

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Teslas have a manual release for the charge port, usually accessed from inside the trunk. That's obviously ill-advised if the charge cable is still energized, and not at all helpful if the contacts are welded together, lol.

I'm thinking of installing a "auto-eject" for the charge cable to avoid idle fees, but it seems like bad manners. Still, it would be better than this:

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Rivian has a manual charge cable release, pretty easy to access, provided the connections hadn't fused.
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What the hell!! Don't these chargers have monitoring and safety systems to prevent causing an EV to be welded to the charging cable and or rendered useless? 😳

Like, you know, every electrical panel that has a breaker or fuse?

A fusible link should blow IN THE CHARGER before bricking a car!

Can you say lawsuit!!

( or would this be user error akin to putting diesel in a gas engine tank?)
 


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Teslas have a manual release for the charge port, usually accessed from inside the trunk. That's obviously ill-advised if the charge cable is still energized, and not at all helpful if the contacts are welded together, lol.

I'm thinking of installing a "auto-eject" for the charge cable to avoid idle fees, but it seems like bad manners. Still, it would be better than this:

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People have done this with their mobile charger on Teslas. Presumably they don’t plug it in fully or their outlet has no power.
 
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( or would this be user error akin to putting diesel in a gas engine tank?)
It might be a hardware error in the vehicle.

Not really clear if its the car or the charger f*ing up and likely both are anxious to blame the other.

I’m not plugging into an EA charger for a while for certain.
 

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In a Munroe tear down, they showed explosive charges to disconnect the battery pack from the rest of the car.

That is the 'fuse'... and the cause of the bang.
 
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In a Munroe tear down, they showed explosive chargers to disconnect the battery pack from the rest of the car.

That is the 'fuse'... and the cause of the bang.
And I suspect it’s quite expensive to replace.
 

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Yea..

Makes you worry that they go straight to Defcon 5, which on the surface is a good thing, safety first. But it also shows how immature their systems are.

As a work in progress, it is better to blow out the connection than risk a fatality.
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