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No Locking Charger?

Should the charge cable be locked when charging at home or in public?


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EVSteve

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100% the correct reason.
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The XC90 behavior annoys me to no end. Pressing “unlock” on the fob eliminates the door dance!
If only my keys were not in my backpack/pocket. One of our older EVSEs does not lock. I installed it summer 2013 with our Chevy volt and used that one with the xc90 and the xc90 evse with the volt. Eventually I got EVSEs from our local electric company for discounted charging. Unfortunately those lock, however the phev gets used far less (maybe a few days per month) than the full EVs at our house.
 

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But if I have to go to the airport, to the city for a nice dinner, or travel to the neighnoring towns for work, this is when I worry.
Granted AZ is pretty far from KS, but people fucking with charging cars is pretty rare, and I'm willing to bet on the decline. I've not once had anyone mess with my unattended charging car. Nor have I talked to anyone that has. Sure there's some vids online, and occasional forum/reddit/lemmy posts about it, but I'm willing to bet the likelihood is near 0 that it'll happen to you in any form.
 

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Granted AZ is pretty far from KS, but people fucking with charging cars is pretty rare, and I'm willing to bet on the decline. I've not once had anyone mess with my unattended charging car. Nor have I talked to anyone that has. Sure there's some vids online, and occasional forum/reddit/lemmy posts about it, but I'm willing to bet the likelihood is near 0 that it'll happen to you in any form.
Agreed….
Maybe it is my faith in humanity today(Could be different tomorrow🤷🏻‍♂️)! Are there some aholes in the world that would do stupid stuff like some of the other posts in this thread?…. Sure
I think most people are good and are not going to do idiotic things just to mess with someone else for no reason. Is it 99% ? or less? I couldn’t tell you. There are always going to be some jerks that only care about themselves and want to screw with other people just for the heck of it but in my limited public charging experiences, I have found that most of the people I have talked to are pretty nice and I would think that we would look out for each other if someone ran to go to the restroom or grab a snack or whatever I think the other EV owners would not allow someone just to come walking up and mess with someone else’s vehicle. Just my humble opinion!
Kinda like flying on an commercial airline should I worry that the door is going to fly off or some other catastrophe or should I rely on my experience from the hundreds of flights I have been on or the thousands of flights every day that go off without a hitch. Something could always happen, but chances are slim to none that it would happen to you.
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