That's your emergency release for your gas tank door in case the latch or button break. Or your battery dies. Here is a picture of the missing end of it:Is it a wire? Does it have a copper core? TBH it looks more like a broken plastic cable tie to me!
I've had a quick look on my car and there is nothing similar (i.e. not an unbroken wire of the same colour) but I did notice a "notch" immediately behind the washer filler point lid, so I wonder if this is a temporary tie that it used during production, which is intended to be removed when the car is complete?
That would explain why mine doesn't have one! Mine's a BEV only. So it must have broken off (in the OP's case) where it attaches to the gas fill flap? Might simply be a missing split pin, but not possible to say for sure without seeing one properly hooked up.That's your emergency release for your gas tank door
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