As more EV chargers grace the roadways and parking lots of the world, thieves are taking advantage. The cables that connect chargers to cars use valuable copper wire, making them easy targets for ...

During the past few years, copper thieves have discovered a new target for their criminal activities: EV charger cables. The phenomenon has reached epidemic proportions, so EV charging networks have ...

The theft of copper wires is far from a new phenomenon — major newspapers have published recurring articles with headlines like "Copper Thefts on the Rise" since at least 2002. But the problem has ...

Thieves are cutting EV charging cables by the hundreds, which has become a very expensive problem for charger suppliers like ChargePoint, one of the largest. So ChargePoint invented a cable that is ...

Electric vehicle chargers have been targeted by thieves as their cables contain copper, which can be sold for scrap. This means, in certain areas, it’s not uncommon to arrive at a charger only to find ...

Multi-continental EV charging network ChargePoint has introduced two new solutions to combat a looming threat for electric vehicle owners using public charging stations: vandalism and theft. Today, ...

EV charger cable theft and damage is rampant, so ChargePoint decided to do something about it. The Campbell, California-based charging network announced Thursday a two-pronged plan to deter EV ...

ChargePoint is building hard to cut cables and adding tamper-detection alarms to EV charging stations. ChargePoint is building hard to cut cables and adding tamper-detection alarms to EV charging ...

The United Kingdom’s largest EV fast charging operator is adding several security layers to stop cable theft. InstaVolt’s latest idea is to fit GPS trackers into charging cables. That’s in addition to ...

On top of the many hurdles to furthering EV adoption in the United States, it adds insult to injury whenever public electric vehicle chargers are vandalized with cables cut, rendering the chargers ...

A surge in EV charging cable thefts is putting the reliability of the UK’s charging network at risk and undermining trust among drivers. InstaVolt is the UK’s largest network of fast chargers, and ...