What to do about someone who unplugged my car

[MachEMaster]

It's a charging spot not a parking spot

What would be your thoughts on this senario: You roll into a free EV charging spot at a Hotel at 10pm. Your charging session will not be complete until 1am. Do you stay up/set an alarm to move your car? Or do you get up at 6am to move your car? Better yet do you go enjoy the continental breakfast, checkout of your room, throw your bag in the Frunk, and depart at 9:00am?

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[Socalsp3]

What would be your thoughts on this senario: You roll into a free EV charging spot at a Hotel at 10pm. Your charging session will not be complete until 1am. Do you stay up/set an alarm to move your car? Or do you get up at 6am to move your car? Better yet do you go enjoy the continental breakfast, checkout of your room, throw your bag in the Frunk, and depart at 9:00am?

i would move it

 

[MoeHouston]

This is so weird, If your car is fully charged and someone unplugs it. Who cares.. They could even close the cover to the charger port for all I care. I would not give a single care if my car was fully charged and someone needed it. Only would I care as if it wasn't fully charged, but I would never go to the point of making a report. More things in life to worry about I think lol. I value my car, but I value people needing the charge to get somewhere they needed to as well. We need to learn as people to be more considerate of situations that we don't know people could be going through. Such a "me me me" discussion haha.

 

[RetiredDP]

Part of the problem is that Ford does not lock the plug into the charging port when the car is locked.

This fact worries me if I'm using my TeslaTap adapter and someone decides they want it more than I do then just unplug me and walk away with a couple hundred bucks of hardware.

I'm not sure about yours, but my TeslaTap Mini has two "lock holes" in it that ( when used with mini locks) prevents anyone from disconnecting the TeslapTap Mini from what it's connected to.

 

[ZuleMME]

We simply need charging spots to all have idle fees after completed. free for 30 minutes. $30 per hour afterward billed by the minute.

The problem will sort itself.

 

[Mirak]

I did not realize this topic would generate the amount of passion it did ?. I will probably let the incident go, but the guy does park in the same garage as I do so I'll keep an eye out for him. I will speak to him (nicely) if I see him.

I've seen a lot of different opinions here, and that's all fine and dandy, but fair warning to anyone reading this who thinks it's ok to unplug someone else's car under any circumstances: if I catch you touching my car you will have one of the worst days you've had in a while. And if you, by chance, damage my car by improperly disconnecting it while charging, you will have a bad year. Fill in the details with your imagination.

Yes, it is a D-bag move to leave a fully charged EV/ICE car in a L2/DCFC parking spot for an extended period of time. Regardless, that does not give anyone the right to mess with someone else's property. When I DCFC there is often 30+ amps of current flowing through the charge port... you risk bricking the car(and potentially an arc flash) by yanking that out live. L2 is a much lower risk, but you're still dealing with 240V and several amps of current. I do not trust some random ya-hoo to do that properly. In other words - don't mess with someone else's car.

Also, we are talking about a public charging spot funded by the city... one individual does not have ANY rights to use it over the next person. Just be patient and plug it in somewhere else.

You sound like a very grumpy, and unreasonable, person. If you leave your car on a public charger after it is finished charging, other EVers have the right to unplug you. If you're going to get bent out of shape about that, you are the problem. Sorry, but not gonna sugarcoat this.

 

[emersonsdad]

I’m probably an @ss for my charging habit. I work for the railroad so when I get called for work I park next door in the public L1 chargers at Amtrak for about 36 hrs while I’m gone. I only do it about once a week when I get between 40%-50% and when I get back it’s around 70%-80% charged. There are 4 chargers there and I’ve never seen more than 1 car charging at any given time of day. I figure most people that would be charging there are getting on a train and leaving their car there for an extended period of time but probably not as long as me.

 

[Mirak]

I’m probably an @ss for my charging habit. I work for the railroad so when I get called for work I park next door in the public L1 chargers at Amtrak for about 36 hrs while I’m gone. I only do it about once a week when I get between 40%-50% and when I get back it’s around 70%-80% charged. There are 4 chargers there and I’ve never seen more than 1 car charging at any given time of day. I figure most people that would be charging there are getting on a train and leaving their car there for an extended period of time but probably not as long as me.

Amtrak’s employees probably outnumber the passengers, so I think you’re ok.

 

[kevC]

10 pages and OP still hasn't responded if his car was charged or not (I think). Entirely relevant to how I view this.

 

[nvabill]

If I catch you touching my car you will have one of the worst days you've had in a while. And if you, by chance, damage my car by improperly disconnecting it while charging, you will have a bad year. Fill in the details with your imagination.

I gotta say this whole thing is cracking me up, I mean really, 10 pages of this mess! Here you are talking all tough on this forum and you don't even have the courage to talk to the guy who unplugged your car from the charger, now that's funny right there! ?

 

[Mirak]

10 pages and OP still hasn't responded if his car was charged or not (I think). Entirely relevant to how I view this.

I think we can reasonably surmise at this point that it was fully charged. Also, the OP is totally gonna find that guy and give him what for.

 

[nvabill]

I think we can reasonably surmise at this point that it was fully charged. Also, the OP is totally gonna find that guy and give him what for.

The OP isn't going to do anything, if he was it would have already been done when he unplugged the car.

 

[nvabill]

10 pages and OP still hasn't responded if his car was charged or not (I think). Entirely relevant to how I view this.

Absolutely, he is definitely being coy about the details, was it fully charged, was the charge port door closed, did he actually see the Tesla driver do the dirty deed? ?

 

[MisterSofa]

For the people that would get upset about someone “touching” your car. In Jersey, some gas stations have attendants that pump your gasoline for you. Would you go out of your car to open up the gas door and then get out again to close the door just so he doesn’t touch it?

 

[mkhuffman]

What would be your thoughts on this senario: You roll into a free EV charging spot at a Hotel at 10pm. Your charging session will not be complete until 1am. Do you stay up/set an alarm to move your car? Or do you get up at 6am to move your car? Better yet do you go enjoy the continental breakfast, checkout of your room, throw your bag in the Frunk, and depart at 9:00am?

i would move it

I would move it before breakfast, not after. If you are not asleep, and are dressed enough for breakfast, you can move your car.

I don't think you need to wake up at 1 AM and move your car. However, if you arrive at 10 PM and will be fully charged in 3 hours you probably don't need a charge and don't need to occupy the charger in the first place. So you should not even park there at all.

The only time I used hotel charging I arrived at 10 PM and luckily there was a charging space available. The other charger was connected to a fully charged Tesla. A complete and total a-hole, obviously. I left the hotel at 6 AM the next morning, still not 100% charged but charged enough to make it 100 miles to the closest DCFC. (The Tesla a-hole was still there, of course.)

As I was pulling out of the space at 6 AM, a Tesla was waiting to take my place. Yep. Someone else actually needed a charge at 6 AM. So please don't take your time to move your car. Move it when you get up and dressed. Be reasonable and considerate. Unlike so many others who think they own the charger.

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