David, no need for locking doors on EVSE, all Type 2 EVSE side connectors have a hole for the locking pin in the EVSE connector. So indeed, the connectors are locked on both sides. The curbside charging stations that I see in The Netherlands are a sleek 3-sided pole with open plugs on two sides and the payment interface on the third. Inlets only protected by the flap on the plug, but the locking pin will hold the cord in place for you. Some US EVs, notably and infamously VW, try to lock the J1772 connector in the car with a pin appearing *above* the latch so it cannot un-latch. However, my former colleagues at Enel started carrying a screwdriver around when testing the VW charging, because the car was prone to die or somehow lock up its software and when it rebooted it forgot that the inlet was locked. No way to drive unless you forced the pin inside the inlet back inside so you could unplug... Some of the old school EV'ers consider it rude to lock the connector when there is the chance that someone comes along who needs to power more urgently than you and now cannot unplug your car, even when you are finished charging... Teslas have always locked their proprietary connector. However, at public J1772 stations the plug could still be removed from the adapter unless you install a special ring on it that again holds down the latch as long as the adapter is plugged into the car. Since Tesla uses Type 2 in Europe, the same holds for all EVs there. With the transition to NACS there will be more and more locking, though it is still the cord fixed attached to the EVSE as far as I know. Cor.
On Fri, Dec 6, 2024 at 7:16 PM EV List Lackey via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > > On 6 Dec 2024 at 18:10, Cor van de Water via EV wrote: > > > many EVs do not lock the J1772 plug, so unless the owner took > > care to somehow lock it, or if the vehicle provides for the lock (like > > in Europe, where the EV'er brings the cable and thus wants it to lock > > into their EV) any thief can simply walk away with the complete EVSE. > > Really? US CCS1 EVs don't lock the charging connector while charging? > > I never drove a production EV in the US, so I have no experience with this. > > Does NACS lock the connector at the car inlet? > > Our CCS2 locks at the both ends. The EV inlet has a motorized lock that > retains the connector. Public charging points have their connectors behind > little metal doors, which lock during charging, with a slot for the cable to > exit. > > David Roden, EVDL moderator & general lackey > > To reach me, don't reply to this message; I won't get it. Use my > offlist address here : http://evdl.org/help/index.html#supt > > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > > If at first you don't succeed, skydiving probably isn't for you. > > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > > _______________________________________________ > Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org > No other addresses in TO and CC fields > HELP: http://www.evdl.org/help/ > _______________________________________________ Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org No other addresses in TO and CC fields HELP: http://www.evdl.org/help/
