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Is there anything in an EV to prevent.....

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Is there anything in an Electric Vehicle to prevent it being driven off whilst still plugged in?

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    My understanding is yes, most manufacturers don't permit the vehicle to be driven off whilst plugged in. In addition, the standards for plugs, socket-outlets and tethered cables, associated with charging, have huge retention force tests to help prevent people being exposed to live conductors if cables are accidentally snagged - typically at least double that of a portable appliance, but increasing with increasing current-carrying capacity.



    At least some PHEVs (plug-in hybrids) have insufficient safeguards to prevent charging and refuelling (with petrol or diesel) at the same time.
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    I spent quite some time choosing a new location for the power connection on the ladies horse box after she drove off with it still plugged in.


    Trying to get the fixed inlet plug immediately adjacent to the drivers door where it would not knocked off or soaking wet was a compromise, the vehicle body builders said it had been better where it was and I hadn’t made the best choice of location, but that was where it had been when she drove off still connected.


    Hey! Ho! 


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    On some large diesel machines I have been known to use as 12V PSU from the shore power connector to interlock to a warning light on the dash and an immobiliser, - ties in with a circuit that keeps the engine cranking battery charged. Hopping in and driving off  is a very real problem if not interlocked.


    On a modern EV, the electronics knows it is charging and wll not let you drive off.

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    mapj1:

    On some large diesel machines I have been known to use as 12V PSU from the shore power connector to interlock to a warning light on the dash and an immobiliser, - ties in with a circuit that keeps the engine cranking battery charged. Hopping in and driving off  is a very real problem if not interlocked.


    On a modern EV, the electronics knows it is charging and wll not let you drive off.

     


    Do people still celerbrate the age old tradition of driving off with the petrol/diesel filler still in the fuel tank filler? ?


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    ebee:

    Do people still celerbrate the age old tradition of driving off with the petrol/diesel filler still in the fuel tank filler? ?


    I really was trying not to comment, but how about the celebrated case of the tanker driver who was filling a service station (note not filling up at a service station) who drove off whilst connected?


    The problem was that he lit up and managed to set fire to the rig. Undaunted, he set off regardless and managed to set fire to the whole street.

    Details here!


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    I pulled into a filling station as a girl finished filling her car with diesel whilst smoking a cigarette, then as I was filling up she popped the bonnet and started pouring a full five litres of oil into the oil filler.


    When I went in to pay I said to the cashier have you been watching her, he replied yes, but at least it was diesel she was filling up with and she has just got her own come uppance. 


    She made it less than fifty fifty metres up the road before her car died.

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