Who will protect the juice?
Copper wire thefts have increased in Los Angeles and other cities, but with thieves looking outside of street lights for cables to cut, drivers expecting to use EV chargers are sometimes caught off-guard.
With a significant number of the cut cables and smashed charging units being harvested for copper wire now, companies, governments and EV advocates are proposing everything from greater enforcement and penalties to cables that cover a vandal with ink—similar to the measures employed against bank robbers. Such a system has also been discussed in the UK, according to a BBC story from April.
What’s wrong with BYO (edit: Bring Your Own) cable, where the charger is basically just an outlet? Europe and elsewhere have figured this out.
Cunts still vandalise the chargers because they’re ignorant and afraid of what they don’t understand
And they don’t understand much of anything…
I have an EV but did not know about BYO cable, so I went to check what it means and yeah, every AC charger I’ve encountered in Europe is like that. Just a plug, in some cases it’s even protected with a metallic cover that unlocks once you’ve entered your payment information.
It does not work for fast DC charging though.