Now that we are dealing with severe night frost, sometimes a charging cable can freeze. Fortunately, preventing and otherwise remedying it is not too complicated.
Now that we have been dealing with fairly low temperatures for almost a week, a relatively new phenomenon may well appear: frozen charging cables. Although there are reports that there are many problems with it, the ANWB does not really recognize that image. A spokesperson explains to Techzle that Road Services received ‘a handful of reports’ at the beginning of the week, but that it does not cause a problem remarkably often. There were some reports in particular on Sunday and Monday. According to the ANWB, the ‘drifting snow’ of that time was a potential culprit. This allowed the snow to get between the plug head and the loading opening and then freeze.
Prevention is better than cure, so the fairly simple advice is: make sure the plug goes in as dry as possible. Wiping dry well and also drying the openings should in principle be enough. If it still freezes, the Road Assistance has a simple solution. Just heat gently with a hair dryer and if all goes well, everything will come loose again. Greasing with special substances is therefore not necessary and when loosening, do not bother with (warm) water at all. Should there ever be so-called ‘snowdrift’ again, it might be an idea to cover the connection with something.