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Nolte: Thieves Steal Tesla’s Electric Vehicle Charging Cables for Copper in California
Breitbart ^ | 05/16/2024 | JOHN NOLTE

Posted on 05/16/2024 8:58:32 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

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To: ChicagoConservative27

Has been happening since day ONE.

Sell the car with a “MALE end” on each end——Car has orofice-—charger has orofice.

Problem solved....

UNLESS the jerks use Gorila Glue in the charger orofice.


21 posted on 05/16/2024 9:20:51 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: woodbutcher1963

I wonder what the copper value of Wheat Backed pennies are now? I am sure it is more than a penny.


According to coinflation.com copper cents minted before 1982 are worth a bit more than 3¢ each for their copper.


22 posted on 05/16/2024 9:25:49 AM PDT by hanamizu ( )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

These fast charging cables contain four very thick wires.
At least 0 AWG coper ones are used.
That is very substantial amount of coper. Like couple of pounds per foot!
Since they are usually several charging stations lined up next to each other, you can collect quite a good amount of cash!
My little calculator tells me a cable like this is about 20 lb of coper. $100 for cable is a pretty penny.


23 posted on 05/16/2024 9:26:16 AM PDT by AZJeep
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To: ChicagoConservative27

A couple of guys from South of da Border named Jose and Chuy.


24 posted on 05/16/2024 9:27:10 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (When did WE decide to make America a UN 5-Star Asylum Paradise for Socialist losers?)
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To: wrench

Need to switch to aluminum, 1/5 the incentive to steal.

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Good idea, however I suspect there would be an issue of metal fatigue/work hardening of the aluminum wires with repeated flexing. Still might be more economical than the copper used today, even if frequent replacement is needed.

Another idea is to have the existing cables retract into the charge station. Yes that would cost many millions in development and upgrade, but if EVs are the future....
(Not an EV fan...)


25 posted on 05/16/2024 9:34:29 AM PDT by sonova (No money? You're free to go.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I heard it was hard to find a gas station in California ? LOL


26 posted on 05/16/2024 9:46:18 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: wrench
Need to switch to aluminum, 1/5 the incentive to steal.

Doesn't aluminum have more resistance to electricity? (which is one reason you're not supposed to use aluminum for home wiring) Given that power that flows through these, I would imagine the heat produced would be significant.

27 posted on 05/16/2024 9:49:45 AM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Where did I leave my shocked face?


28 posted on 05/16/2024 9:52:24 AM PDT by gathersnomoss (Just Give Me Truth.)
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To: butlerweave

I heard it was hard to find a gas station in California ? LOL

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I thought each one carried their own gas station with them
no matter where we went as we pooted along.


29 posted on 05/16/2024 9:54:22 AM PDT by deport
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To: ChicagoConservative27

One little point. Don’t you copper thieves care anything about the environment and the fight against the fossil fuel industry that hurts climate change? Forcing EVs onto everyone is set back if people can’t charge them.


30 posted on 05/16/2024 10:47:29 AM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: deport

Funny.

Rat Pack onstage set.
Dean Martin: I’m tellin’ ya’ after that Mexican restaurant meal we had I have enough gas to fuel the plane all the way back to New York.


31 posted on 05/16/2024 10:49:31 AM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: Reno89519

Only $2 a pound for clean copper here. Less if there is insulation. But it’ll be enough to get a fix of Mexican meth or fentanyl. And some people just like breaking stuff.


32 posted on 05/16/2024 11:49:29 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: Jeff Chandler

“Tell the prosecutors and judges that women need to charge their Teslas to get to the clinics to murder their children.”

And to get their living children to the gender reassignment center.

I wonder if it will change when some politicians can’t charge their car on their way up to Napa.


33 posted on 05/16/2024 11:50:41 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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34 posted on 05/16/2024 12:14:09 PM PDT by bitt (<img src=' 'width=30%>)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Well, yes. it surely should have been considered when planning charging stations. I wondered about it when I saw the first picture of thick cables from pump to car connection.


35 posted on 05/16/2024 12:27:01 PM PDT by arthurus ( covfefe Mt)
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To: woodbutcher1963

Weigh one or a hundred and find out.


36 posted on 05/16/2024 12:27:48 PM PDT by arthurus ( covfefe P)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Democrat-run California wants to force residents into electric vehicles (EVs)

Yeah well guess why democrats can’t make a circle can’t make ends meet.

Utopian dreams have their own reasoning.


37 posted on 05/16/2024 1:37:16 PM PDT by Vaduz
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To: woodbutcher1963

Wheat pennies are 95% copper.


38 posted on 05/16/2024 2:52:54 PM PDT by Fresh Wind (Nothing says "Democracy" like throwing your opponents in jail.)
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To: Reno89519

I paid $150 last week for 50 feet of 10/2 electrical wire. More than Joe Biden is behind that kind of inflation???????


39 posted on 05/16/2024 3:31:54 PM PDT by RatRipper
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To: sonova; wrench

Why can’t they use some kind of WIRELESS CHARGER like we have for cell phones ?


40 posted on 05/16/2024 4:55:43 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370)
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