I second this. I'm frequently using the volkswagen ID.3 and there is no way to unplug it unless you unlock it from charging station with the card you find it in the car (at least in Berlin).
The locking feature is misguided. There should absolutely be a mechanical interlock to prevent unplugging under load. But no key should be required to unplug a home charger, and no key should be needed to plug in a charger once the charge port is open. As I see it, the only security goals should be:
1. At a public charger, one should have to authenticate to _either_ the car or the charger to interrupt an active charging session.
2. When using a portable charger of the sort that is owned by the car’s owner, one should not be able to unplug the charger and thus steal it if one cannot authenticate to the car.
And that’s it. You should be able to unplug someone else from a public charger that can reach multiple parking spaces once it finishes charging.
The CCS2 standard used in Europe and most of the world locks the cable similarly to Tesla.
The CCS1 standard locks the cable using a little flap that folds down on top of the CCS1 latch to hold it in place. Its every bit as clumsy as it sounds, but it does mean there is a locked cable.
