Posted on 09/24/2024 11:23:35 AM PDT by Red Badger
Don’t the left hate Tesla? Hmmm
I’ve heard that good Samaritans all over the US have come up with a method to deter these thefts. People who live close to an EV charger and own pets are encouraged to put on rubber gloves collect cat or dog waste and smear it on the charging handle and cord of your nearest EV charger, being sure to apply it generously from one end of the cable to the other. If you don’t own a pet just get some pet waste from a neighbor. If we all help with this EV cable theft can be stopped.
It’s not easy for EV proponents to come up with common sense solutions, otherwise they would realize EV’s suck.
But it would be very easy to build a reel into each charging station which would release the cable when you agree to pay for charging and end by reeling the cable back in when you were finished.
Damn that was Hard !
Gee, who didn’t see that coming?
“every day 100s of people drive off with the handle still connected to the car”
Hundreds? I doubt it’s that high.
I think it’s Musk they hate, not his company.
But, you’re right. Do they hate Musk or global warming more?
But, you’re right. Do they hate Musk or global warming more?
The Issue is never The Issue.
We all know that “The Issue” with leftists is implementing global communism and total control over all people.
It’s so hard to believe it has come to that in the USA, but there is no denying it.
I read that in one gas station it happens 3-5 times a month. (Google: “ Driving away from a gas station with a gas pump attached is relatively common, and can happen multiple times a month at a single station”). So I extrapolated and then cut the number. But there is a reason these pumps are now installed with breakaway valves. Easier to repair on site.
The obvious solution is to keep the cables at 400+ V AC when idle so anyone cutting them even in gloves gets 400 to 800’volts even in rubber gloves why AC because it locks human muscles tight on the current source you can’t let go then just let nature take its course. let the amps flow for a couple of minutes the problem self resolves. Put this on national news and the Darwin award winners will deter the rest. Society doesn’t need thieves they should all be put to death like in olden times anyway.
Look daddy, a sleeping bat.
I like the way you think, Son!!!
I Googled “Number of times cars drive away with gas nozzle” and found nothing but explanations about how the nozzle works and shuts off automatically.
Amazing that it happens that often at one station.
I just found in 2014 - 2017 there were 115,000 gas stations operating in the USA. So even 1 drive-away per day is 300 total per day. One drive-away per week would be 45 per day.
Yikes!
bttt
I am oldskool that way. For any theft of property or wilful property destruction,sabotage or vandalism, same for pedos, rapists and drug dealers. Society simply has no use or need to keep any of them breathing any longer. Swift public executions and the problem solves itself.
Illegls who manage to get a car are also robbing cars for parts.
“Yes son, he rests dhring daylight”
Lawsuits would be forthcoming.................
John Adams said, “Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” Morality and virtue are the foundation of our republic and necessary for a society to be free.
This is as true today as it as every been.! If there is NO law and order, the Republic is lost.
SELL THE VEHICLE WITH AN “UMBILICAL CORD” that is carried in the vehicle.
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So the catilitic convertor theives will now just pry open the car trunk for the cord?
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