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.

[ds666]

This is still a big issue in my town - every charging point I've seen has had the leads cut off - they are replaced and then cut off again - maybe 10/12 that I've seen within a 1m radius of each other .
I wonder what the punishment would be if the perps are caught ?

Is it happening elsewhere?

[TheDeuce]

ds666 said:

This is still a big issue in my town - every charging point I've seen has had the leads cut off - they are replaced and then cut off again - maybe 10/12 that I've seen within a 1m radius of each other .
I wonder what the punishment would be if the perps are caught ?

Is it happening elsewhere?

I'm sure the media would be making a huge flap about it if it was happening enough to be called a 'wave of EV crime'

The punishment will be chuff all as they won't get caught. Personally if I lived in a town where people routinely broke the law and inconvenienced other people for the sake of a couple of quids worth of copper, I would see the town as the problem and move.

[ARHarh]

TheDeuce said:

I'm sure the media would be making a huge flap about it if it was happening enough to be called a 'wave of EV crime'

The punishment will be chuff all as they won't get caught. Personally if I lived in a town where people routinely broke the law and inconvenienced other people for the sake of a couple of quids worth of copper, I would see the town as the problem and move.

It happens in every town, unless you know somewhere it has not happened.

[kambites]

ARHarh said:

It happens in every town, unless you know somewhere it has not happened.

I've never seen or heard of it happen around here, which admittedly doesn't mean it doesn't happen; just that it doesn't get reported anywhere I see.

Although if you look at what the local rags consider "news", I rather think that someone stealing a charger cable would be the biggest story they'd get all year.

ETA: Does seem an odd thing to do. There are plenty of things worth far more which would be considerably easier to steal!

Edited by kambites on Monday 10th February 12:26

[ARHarh]

kambites said:

ARHarh said:

It happens in every town, unless you know somewhere it has not happened.

I've never seen or heard of it happen around here, which admittedly doesn't mean it doesn't happen; just that it doesn't get reported anywhere I see.

Although if you look at what the local rags consider "news", I rather think that someone stealing a charger cable would be the biggest story they'd get all year.

Someone stole our only street light in my village, and its not like its a busy village, after all it only has one street lamp. This was the only crime reported in the area last year apart from domestic stuff.

[ds666]

ARHarh said:

TheDeuce said:

I'm sure the media would be making a huge flap about it if it was happening enough to be called a 'wave of EV crime'

The punishment will be chuff all as they won't get caught. Personally if I lived in a town where people routinely broke the law and inconvenienced other people for the sake of a couple of quids worth of copper, I would see the town as the problem and move.

It happens in every town, unless you know somewhere it has not happened.

May be he's a traveller .... lol

[Monkeylegend]

ds666 said:

I wonder what the punishment would be if the perps are caught ?

Is it happening elsewhere?

The police will charge them

[dxg]

Monkeylegend said:

ds666 said:

I wonder what the punishment would be if the perps are caught ?

Is it happening elsewhere?

The police will charge them

I hope they do. It's a re-volting crime.

[TheDeuce]

ARHarh said:

TheDeuce said:

I'm sure the media would be making a huge flap about it if it was happening enough to be called a 'wave of EV crime'

The punishment will be chuff all as they won't get caught. Personally if I lived in a town where people routinely broke the law and inconvenienced other people for the sake of a couple of quids worth of copper, I would see the town as the problem and move.

It happens in every town, unless you know somewhere it has not happened.

It's not a 'big issue' in most towns though, and doesn't happen to 'every charger', which is how it was described. Apparently the charger leads are cut off every time they're replaced. I don't think that's particularly common in most areas... As I pointed out, if it was then the media would be all over it as they love to fuel the fire of doubt concerning EV's.


To be clear, if every charger in my town had it's lead cut off, repeatedly, month after month... I would not consider that a normal or expected rate of crime!

[ds666]

Do you know the facts on the matter or is it just your opinion .
Great if it is just a local issue ( and it isn’t all chargers ).
But I will move . Thanks