I predicted this several years ago, when I saw some folks with very long charging cables from their apartments out across sidewalk to their vehicles.
Recycled electrical copper wires over three dollars a pound. Somewhere I read that the copper of these charging cables was worth five dollars a pound a couple weeks ago. They might be an alloy or something.
We need to build 125,000 to replace the gas stations we already have in use.
But in Biden's New Green Economy, people are so desperate they are stealing $5000 cast iron fire hydrants to sell them for $10 to scrap yards.
So what chance do $3.00 a lb copper charging cable have to last a night in the Biden economy
Can I ask if they were male or female cable connectors on the ends?
I mean, it being June and all......
Any recycling center that buys stolen charging cables is knowingly buying stolen goods. Even if they strip off the insulation they would be easily recognizable. Plus the buyer should take a photo of the seller and of his drivers license.
That will not stop all theft but will slow it down.
One solution. Use Aluminum as the conductor instead. Cables would have a larger diameter but their value would be less than a third of copper.
Hmmmmmmm..... How to discourage EV cable theft.......build regular automobiles, trucks and SUVs, powered by that amazing, VERY clean burning internal combustion engine.
As has been stated previously: we have thousands of years of hydrocarbons under our feet. We have only drilled a few miles into the Earth. The western world knows how to use energy without pollution, and C02 IS NOT POLLUTION, it is plant food. The more C02 in the atmosphere, the greener the planet.
They can have the cables, just leave my catalytic converter alone.
“About 4 in 10 U.S. adults”
Adults don’t play into
the EV sham.
I regulary commuted from
Houston to Roswell.
Hauling ass, it was a
9 to 10 hour trip.
Boredom plays a big roll.
There’s absolutely
nothing out there.
Those in the big cities
would surely suffer
from much more anxiety
worrying about the indian
attacks.
That’s easy. Keep a high voltage/high amp charge running thru the cable while not being used.
ZAP!
EV’s are for societies that can no longer to the maths...
Eliminate the charging cable at the station. Provide a cable with each car to plug into the station.
Make it simple, maybe some type of color-coded spring clamps on each end...
Not sure if we have even one charging station in our town unless it’s a home station. We do have some of those EV’s unless maybe one or two have caught fire since I typed this.
Several years ago the cast of “Top Gear Uk” posited that pre teens and teens will go around yanking out cable from EVs. Owner thinks it charged all night but the power level will be zero.
I’m old enough to remember when thieves stole all the gasoline pump hoses. It was a trying and stressful time.
The pump don’t work cause the vandals took the handles
AP discovers the corollary to John Adams’ statement about the Constitution being fit only for a moral and religious people. When you no longer live among a moral and religious people and in fact encourage crime, you cannot leave valuable charging cables unattended.
Life in the US is going to have to change in many ways if we leave the unicorn believers in charge.
Could have told you that from the beginning.