The internet is full of postings from disgruntled Tesla owners whose cars are attacked and/or vandalized while driving or while parked but one rarely sees reports of such things happening to non-Teslas.
Today I used the ChargePoint EVSE at the Whole Foods market in my state's capital city - the only Whole Foods in the state AND the only free public charger in the city. There is one charger and one marked parking space - which is usually ICEd - but, today, it was open. I squeezed the Clarity into the slot between an Escalade and a Hummer, activated the charger, plugged it into the car and entered the store.
About five minutes later I received a notification saying that charging had stopped - after dispensing 1.5kW. I figured it must have glitched somehow. When I returned to the Clarity about 30 minutes later I found the cable disconnected and draped over the charging door: Someone felt it necessary to disconnect my car AND to fold both side-view mirrors forward (something I did not know they could do). I was glad that the miscreant didn't feel it necessary to try to break-off the charging door...
So, yeah, that happened...
Today I used the ChargePoint EVSE at the Whole Foods market in my state's capital city - the only Whole Foods in the state AND the only free public charger in the city. There is one charger and one marked parking space - which is usually ICEd - but, today, it was open. I squeezed the Clarity into the slot between an Escalade and a Hummer, activated the charger, plugged it into the car and entered the store.
About five minutes later I received a notification saying that charging had stopped - after dispensing 1.5kW. I figured it must have glitched somehow. When I returned to the Clarity about 30 minutes later I found the cable disconnected and draped over the charging door: Someone felt it necessary to disconnect my car AND to fold both side-view mirrors forward (something I did not know they could do). I was glad that the miscreant didn't feel it necessary to try to break-off the charging door...
So, yeah, that happened...