Posted on 06/18/2023 10:03:43 AM PDT by artichokegrower
OAKLAND, Calif. - Vandals sliced through thick cables at an Oakland electric vehicle charging station, leaving drivers powerless.
Nearly a dozen charging cables are missing from the EVgo charging station at 409 Washington Street near Jack London Square. The chargers have been out of commission for at least a week.
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Why anyone would want to drive in Oakland is beyond me.
Better call a copper.....
TY TYVM
One reason my wife and I changed one of our two cars into an EV was because the EV can be charged at home. So to fuel our ICE pickup we're dependent on gas stations both for local driving and for trips. But with the EV we're dependent on road-side chargers only for trips, not for local driving (or the first 250-ish miles of a trip since that much of the trip is powered from home charging).
Basically, as long as our home has power we can drive the EV at least for local driving. No cable thieves change that. Neither does disrupting gasoline supplies and shipments (for driving the ICE pickup). And with solar providing 80% of all the power we need year round (admittedly less than that in the winter months, but over 90% of the power we need the rest of the year), our home always has power and can charge the EV.
Bonus points if you need two cars anyway because you're married. Thus, by having one of each: an EV and an ICE car, we have transportation security through diversification. Basically if power and/or charging on trips becomes less dependable -- we have the ICE to use for trips. Or if gasoline because scarce or too expensive (IMHO it's still too expensive) we have the EV. Of course, if the Dims are successful in making both gasoline and power scarce, we can usually charge the EV with our solar for local driving without reducing our power consumption habits at home most of the year.
I’m going with Helen Keller.
I work with a company that buys properties and demolishes them to get rid of the vagrants.
One of the things my business does is asbestos inspections, project design, and asbestos project management.
Almost every project I’ve done the copper thieves go in and steal wiring and pipe. The vagrants will move mattresses and couches in and make a home. The project we just finished the thieves tore out the wiring and contaminated the whole space with asbestos dust, so abatement of the asbestos surfacing and collapsing ceiling plaster made it too hazardous. The whole building had to be demolished with wetting, and the debris disposed of as asbestos waste. A lot more expensive than abatement as the metal and concrete couldn’t be recycled.
You’re probably familiar with Weird Al’s version (”Bob”), but if not, here goes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUQDzj6R3p4
Best damn parody in existence; every line is a palindrome, and it still makes more sense than Dylan’s original!
So true😆
Price if copper must be up
“Why would somebody do something like that?”
For $3.78 a pound of copper.
A copper clapper caper.
(seriously, no one?)
OK, a copper cable caper. Clean copper, too.
Some times it’s hard to follow all the ins and outs of a thread … so here is ...
What you really said ….( just KIDDING around)
I think it’s very crazy,” said Aleksi Virtapuro who was visiting from Finland. “Why would somebody do something like that?”
Silly me. Finland wants even more
Cartel people do this in Mexico ...it is a thriving business.
And so it begins..
all those EV cables lying around helpless...people cutting them off......for recycling.
as RVs do at campgrounds
areas like Somalia, Uganda, and Oakland….mostly homeless and illegals
These aren’t vandals …… they are not vandals
Great point, I never thought about that.
Go ahead..
Stevie Wonder could see this down South for years...Chicago, Detroit, Denver, Philadelphia.....
some young entrepreneur must be just Drug-addled thieves
lies….they were taking them to help stock the laboratory of advanced science experiments
Ray Charles too..Ronny Milsap and Jose Feliciano, as well.
It’s called, equity sharing, cash payments, cooled with an AC unit ...like Cape Town a few years ago
programs to provide the “homeless the environment” to steal
God forbid….The majority of these Go to Berkley
You’ll never take the Caldecott Tunnel and Baltimore and Atlanta… it ain’t gonna stop
Just got New York, I’m told!
the elites in Finland do things like this, dealing in stolen merchandise, just for the hell of it
Not as many Amish in Helsinki…….Yet.
because they are evil—no
dig deeper
People who don’t consider thieves probably only have to worry about irate drivers
George Shearing too
theres a lot more all the time that could add up
They already are in charge
You won’t be able to get gas in the snow if you voted democrat.
lolzzzz
Baby I’ve had my ups and downs.
Obviously, we are on to them now! We have their number!
They can’t get anything past the Freepers!
As long as there is a shady recycler who will pay for it this will happen. But fifteen years ago the police were really on the scrappers in the bay area so that you had to present current ID and depending on what you brought in you would have to wait one to two days so that they could verify there was no criminal act involved. Of course even fifteen years ago the bay area was a very different place.
Next step: EVs must carry a cable to plug into the charging station.
Nothing new. In the 69’s when “exotic” place like the south Bronx and Bushwick really went down the 💩er first thing the “college graduates” went for was the copper wiring in the abandoned buildings. Hell, oftentimes times they stole the copper in the buildings that were still occupied.
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