The charger itself is basically just a fancy power switch.
Cutting power to It won't harm the car.
For what it's worth, I cut the power when charging my ev everytime because I want to charge only between 22h00 and 6h00 (when power is cheaper). I've done that for more than 2 years now and never had any problem nor did I see a downgrade in the autonomy of the battery (peugeot e-208).
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No, since the power electronics and on-board charger on the car are designed to handle sudden power cut.
What in practice happens is:
So charger will just suddenly lose power, but that is not a problem. Both the wall supply equipment and the vehicle electronics is designed to handle such circuit trip condition.
The system is designed for robust use out in the world in harsh bad conditions. It isnt ones cheap consumer electronics, where exactly something like sudden power cut might scramble things. For example the car doesn't even lose power. All the EV control circuitry runs on the internal 12V battery, not of the wall feed or even the main traction battery.
What mostly happens is you probably hearing sudden cascade of clack-clack-clack as the various isolation contactors all spring open in simultanous quick succession upon the power and pilot signals diappearing. Not to worry, that is exactly what is designed and supposed to happen upon power trip. The design doesn't want contactors keeping connection existing in case power comes back on suddenly. So on power loss contactors open to isolate the vehicle from power. Only to be closed again in controlled fashion on the order of the control circuits, should power return.
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