Yeah. My favorite part is that the payment processing state machine inevitably leads to the “not charging, locked in place” state, so I have to hang around for a few minutes until my car computer’s self defense logic kicks in, flips the bozo bit on the connector and releases the lock.
I believe my Kia EV6 has an emergency release inside of the trunk area.
This could have been avoided if the charging port had a manual disconnect switch next to it, rated to handle the arcing at full power.
Auxiliary contacts can then release it and tell the computer that you manually killed the port. I dislike this "computer exclusively in the loop" design methodology.
> rated to handle the arcing at full power.
Sure… Except that that’s physically impossible. Search YouTube for “arc flash”.