material costs are actually quite substantial in any product, saving mass in plastic or metal is saving in overall deployment cost

how can they even fix it? the car is in production already

you need a relay to physically disconnect the CP and CC pins of the J1772 connector, otherwise the chargepoint kiosk will still count you as being there, obviously to make sure you actually moved your car

The cheapest way of accomplishing this is to buy a J1772 extension cable and splice into the CC and CP signals, and have an Arduino control the relay via a timer. I think the other way is to buy both a Tesla to J1772 adapter and another J1772 to Tesla adapter and splice into that

Chargepoint is not one deep