Cable theft

[dan_b]

Ouch - is this angry anti-EV vandalism, opportunistic theft of expensive copper cable, or a bit of both?

Wonder how much value there is in 8 lengths of Tesla supercharger cables? They're renowned for being quite short compared to other high power charge cables, and of course they've got the water cooling loop in them as well, so it's not all copper. And surely a metal recycler would have to be highly dodgy to accept them in the first place, it's obviously theft?

https://electrek.co/2022/02/07/tesla-su ... es-stolen/

[Stinsy]

I guess they'd strip the cables before taking them to the scrap yard.

Spectacular destruction of value. Less than £100 worth of copper stolen creates thousands of pounds worth of damage and unmeasurable inconvenience.

I'm assuming Tesla had decent CCTV?

[AE-NMidlands]

Given that (I assume) the charger talks to the car when it is plugged in, I am amazed there isn't a data circuit which would set off an alarm if it was broken, and something else that would start screaming and sending messages out if more were cut off in quick succession.
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