Hi
I was out over the weekend and parked my car in a car park with Tesla destination charger. I plugged in the charger and left for a couple of hours. About 10 minutes before returning to the car, got the message on the phone that the charging was completed. When I got back to the car, in my surprise I saw another Model S was parked next to my car and its owner had unplugged the charger from my car and plugged it to his. For as far as I remember all chargers including Tesla charger had the plug locked in the charger port until the car was unlocked and then you could unlock it.
The question is how this guy managed to release the charger from a locked car without any problem. My car was locked and I have no doubt about it. To add to the mystery, I have a Tesla wall connector at home and several times in the past when the car was locked and key fob not with me, I tried to unlock and release the charger without success because the car was locked but tonight I tried again and with the button on charger plug, I could release the charger and disconnect it! something I could not do in the past.
Has anyone experienced similar issue? Maybe the wall connector or Tesla itself had an update that releases the charger if the car is charged to the specified limit? Or is it possible the owner of Tesla next to me did something to break my car locking mechanism?
Can anyone with Tesla Wall connector without having key fob with him/her try to remove the charger once the car is charged and see if the button releases the charger please?
Many thanks
I was out over the weekend and parked my car in a car park with Tesla destination charger. I plugged in the charger and left for a couple of hours. About 10 minutes before returning to the car, got the message on the phone that the charging was completed. When I got back to the car, in my surprise I saw another Model S was parked next to my car and its owner had unplugged the charger from my car and plugged it to his. For as far as I remember all chargers including Tesla charger had the plug locked in the charger port until the car was unlocked and then you could unlock it.
The question is how this guy managed to release the charger from a locked car without any problem. My car was locked and I have no doubt about it. To add to the mystery, I have a Tesla wall connector at home and several times in the past when the car was locked and key fob not with me, I tried to unlock and release the charger without success because the car was locked but tonight I tried again and with the button on charger plug, I could release the charger and disconnect it! something I could not do in the past.
Has anyone experienced similar issue? Maybe the wall connector or Tesla itself had an update that releases the charger if the car is charged to the specified limit? Or is it possible the owner of Tesla next to me did something to break my car locking mechanism?
Can anyone with Tesla Wall connector without having key fob with him/her try to remove the charger once the car is charged and see if the button releases the charger please?
Many thanks