Of course, many options are available - use whichever is most convenient. Me personally I don't wear a watch around the house - heck, usually a pretty good bet that if I'm wearing a watch I also have a fob in my pocket, i.e. I am leaving the house. Btw, if it's in your own garage, you can set the option to not auto-lock the car at home and simply leave it unlocked. The fob or app is not needed to open the charge door if the car is already unlocked.
But the fob is easy, no problem anymore now that I figured it out.
Does this only work starting from some model year, or is it an Euro / USA difference? But my 2013 euro S most certainly does not open the port when pressing on it.
However it's very easy to open by holding the keyfob trunk button, that's what I have been using..
Also european public charging cables (type2 or CCS) don't have the release button. Only way to get the cable out is to hold the keyfob until charge port clicks (unlocks), then remove the cable. Or you can use the app obviously. In theory the center display also works but you have to be really quick, as the port will relock in a few seconds. So you end up running between drivers seat and charging port and still missing it by a few microseconds..
It's not very intuitive. First time at CCS charger, I must have spent something like 5min figuring out how to get the cable out.
So you end up running between drivers seat and charging port and still missing it by a few microseconds..
IIRC in the US it works on any charging port with auto-close, so starting some time in 2014 I think. I don't know if Euro version works differently, but even in US 2013 models did not have the auto-close charge port.
Interesting. Do other EV's in Europe just not lock their ports at all, or do they have the same issue of having to trigger the unlock through some other means (or maybe it unlocks by itself once charging stops)?
