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RedDevil · 04-09-2015, 02:37 AM

While the car locks the cable at the car side the charging point locks it at the charger side - or it doesn't like the one at my office that you can just unplug at any time.

But even the charger that 'bricked' the I3 would have released the cable when the charge failed - if it had detected it was locked; apparently the switch that senses the lock position failed.

This could only happen for that faulty switch in the charger AND the charger not having a failback mechanism for it AND the car not having a timeout on retrying to charge even when the 12V battery runs low.

But this can happen for other reasons too, not just a faulty charger.
Good to know you can / should jump an EV if the 12V battery has run low.

04-09-2015, 02:37 AM	#20 (permalink)
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