Am 20.04.2021 um 11:46 schrieb Anna Noyd-Dryver:
Jeremy Double wrote:
Anna Noyd-Dryver wrote:

That's talking about whole cables being stolen (presumably to be re-sold
whole) by being unplugged (the're supposed to be locked in to both vehicle
and charger); one of the suggested solutions is a padlock around the cable,
which wouldn't prevent the theft-by-cutting suggested in this thread.

Switch to aluminium conductors, which on a per weight basis are nearly as
good as copper, and which don’t have nearly as much scrap value?

Railway cable thieves cut fibre-optic cables before realising they're
worthless to them; a cut EV charging cable is just as useless whether the
thief subsequently decides to leave the aluminium or not.

It's like with poisonous caterpillars: the one eaten caterpillar is dead
anyway but the bird remembers and does not pick that species a second
time.

Specifically in a road full of EV charging cables, the thieves might
destroy the first one, see that its aluminimu and call it quits before
demolisching all cables in the road.