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Copper Wire-Stripping Thieves Who Target EV Chargers Are a Threat to EV Adoption (gizmodo.com)

submitted 1 week ago by IcedRaktajino@startrek.website to c/electricvehicles@slrpnk.net

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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.

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[–] betanumerus@lemmy.ca -1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

If only there was a way to prevent the completely new problem of theft.

Oh oh oh. And the fact that's it's about copper specifically, for EV charging specifically, makes this totally different than theft of anything else of course.