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by stetrain 883 days ago
Yep, it's a seemingly silly thing but the physical external latch is one of the biggest downsides of the J-1772 / CCS Combo 1 cables compared to NACS.

Europe's version of the AC charging connector (Type 2 Mennekes) and DC connector (CCS Combo 2) both use an internal vehicle-side latching mechanism like Tesla's connector and seem to have fewer reliability issues with the connectors themselves.