I haven't heard of this.

 

Which CPO and which charger?

—Eric

 

Which CPO and which charger?

EA, one of the older dispensers without the green halo.

Cable and handle barely warm when I unplugged.

Borrowed photo of actual dispenser from web search.

As far as I could tell, the charger was unaware of any issues and didn't miss a beat.

 

Perhaps this:

 

This sounds like 2 different things. @Nai3t was DC charging and what @Dougie01 posted looks like it has to do with charging with an EVSE.

 

This happened to me when charging at one of the newer Electrify America stations when traveling across the country. The error occurred 10 minutes in to the charging process; it was a warm evening, but not extremely so. I called Electrify America and they said the cooling system in the charging cable had stopped working. They advised me to switch to a different charger and they queued up a service call for the broken station. I followed their advice and charged the car to 80% without further incident.

Maybe the cooling system in the charging cable was also damaged for the OP?

 

I doubt it, I believe the charger was functioning fine.

56 kWh delivered up to 85%, 176 kW peak, 96 kW average, no errors or throttling I could detect during my 35 minute session.

I'm pretty sure this indicates it was just the car's temp sensor at the changing port saying "hey man I'm good but this guy sitting next to me is looking pretty flush."

 

I'm pretty sure this indicates it was just the car's temp sensor at the changing port saying "hey man I'm good but this guy sitting next to me is looking pretty flush."

Why should the car protect the DC cable specifically by preventing disconnect?

 

My son did some research on my behalf and found one reference in a Reddit thread and one regarding the Ford Capri EV (MEB platform).

 

I think it's trying to protect my hand.

 

I don't understand why it would not stop the charge. Wait until it cools, but keeps charging?

 

Yeah, just a guess based on the verbiage.

You would think the car, which controls the rate of charge, would do something to actively lower it if it sensed there was a problem, even if just to protect itself. Maybe it did? I didn't check.

 

I’ve had this happen once and ambient temp was 72° F. After the car released the handle, I saw that the cable was run over. I’m sure it damaged the cooling loop. The handle itself was warm, not burning hot.

 

I'm back at the exact same charger today. It's 95° outside, and another difference is I started to charge at 20% instead of 8%, but no such warning. I took the charging handle from a Mach-e owner and it was noticeably hot, but not uncomfortably so.

 

I still think that:

• the car should protect the car (and the driver by preventing anything done by the car that could harm the driver eg no disconnecting a cable that has 400V running through by locking it)
• the charging station should protect the station including the cable
• the manufacturer should ensure that the handle will not get too hot by insulating it to an extent that the cable get too hot and the station cuts or limits power before the handle is an issue

and under no circumstance should the car prevent me from disconnecting the cable unless it is to protect the car.

Hell, getting stuck to a charger because the car is such a nanny it refuses to release the cable ”because it’s toi hot”, bitch please, not your problem. Should that be a real issue, as stated, it should be up to the charging station to prevent or resolve without locking it to the car.