It's like the "Hotel California" of charging stations - You can plug in, but you can never leave!Ummm. Wow. Be careful where you plug in please.
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.It's like the "Hotel California" of charging stations - You can plug in, but you can never leave!
If I had a dollar for everytime I caught an EV on fire at a gas station after drinking...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 theGravitronVomitron, 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?
definitely NOT followed by "life in the fast lane".....It's like the "Hotel California" of charging stations - You can plug in, but you can never leave!
You had me going until you used Tequila to “mellow” everyone out.After losing a coupla shots on theGravitronVomitron, the group was getting a little loud for my taste, so to we decided to buy another bottle of tequila to mellow everyone out.
People have done this with their mobile charger on Teslas. Presumably they don’t plug it in fully or their outlet has no power.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:
It might be a hardware error in the vehicle.( or would this be user error akin to putting diesel in a gas engine tank?)
And I suspect it’s quite expensive to replace.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.