Charging leads cut off….

[ds666]

All 4 of my local Instavolt chargers have had the leads cut off , presumably for the copper .
Bit of a worry . They’ve been out of action for weeks now

[gtidriver]

An occasional pulse of electricity through these cables may deter would be thieves, but hopefully not, the ev charger companies could call it an electrical charge/discharge test on the cable, at random times.

[poo at Paul's]

gtidriver said:

An occasional pulse of electricity through these cables may deter would be thieves, but hopefully not, the ev charger companies could call it an electrical charge/discharge test on the cable, at random times.

Have you ever heard of rubber gloves, wellies and insulated bolt cutters?

[ds666]

poo at Paul's said:

gtidriver said:

An occasional pulse of electricity through these cables may deter would be thieves, but hopefully not, the ev charger companies could call it an electrical charge/discharge test on the cable, at random times.

Have you ever heard of rubber gloves, wellies and insulated bolt cutters?

Give those leads back please .

[Rusty Old-Banger]

poo at Paul's said:

gtidriver said:

An occasional pulse of electricity through these cables may deter would be thieves, but hopefully not, the ev charger companies could call it an electrical charge/discharge test on the cable, at random times.

Have you ever heard of rubber gloves, wellies and insulated bolt cutters?

Found the !

[TheDeuce]

It's actually reassuring we don't hear about more thefts such as this. I remember a few years ago the press tried to get blood pressures to rise over a 'pandemic' of charger cable thefts... But it seems it's such an infrequent thing nobody much cared. Probably because most home charger cables are only out in the open when live.

I'm surprised anyone bothered to cut the cables off those public chargers. The cables are short and not really of use as cable elsewhere, relatively limited copper too. A smash and grab at a local electrical wholesalers would be much riskier and far more profitable.

Maybe the motivation wasn't financial in this instance? Maybe it was one of the anti EV'ers around here looking to deal with the problem at source

[ds666]

Maybe the "Just Stop EV " mob ?

[TheDeuce]

ds666 said:

Maybe the "Just Stop EV " mob ?

Just Burn Oil

[M4cruiser]

Some idiots will vandalise anything.
We've had petrol syphoning.
Cat-converter thefts.
It's just extending into the new tech.
Just waiting for the first "they stole my battery" story.

[gmaz]

There can't be more than ~1kg of copper in those cables. Much of the weight is rubber and water cooling so they may get less than a fiver for them if they can even find somewhere dodgy enough to fence them.