For the 3-min charge of this thing here though I doubt just installing a new breaker would do. I'm not sure about the US, but I don't think you can actually get that much power delivered to your home with low voltage. To charge such a battery in 3 minutes would require _over 1 MW_ ! Would require something like 3x1600A at 230V, and twice that for 110V. Needless to say, that would require some serious cabling... Of course for industrial use you can get a 20kV connection which should easily do... If you'd be content with 1 hour charge of this battery though, you'd only require about 3x80A at 230V, which electric power companies indeed provide (though most one-family houses here are limited to less).

Jumpers are not really used a lot these days. They cost extra, and are clumsy to handle (need to open case). You are right it would be really good if there were some precautions taken so no accidental writes happen (for instance need some special command sequence hard to trigger accidentally), but often those eeprom chips just have a simple serial interface, and reading and writing works almost exactly the same. A couple of years ago you could easily overwrite the eeprom of hauppauge tv cards (though there wasn't much information in there, just the exact model IIRC which was needed to set things up fully correct), a bug very similar to this.