If you think public charging can be annoying, know that it has its headaches in Europe too. Charging an electric vehicle at a Level 2 public charger in Europe can be difficult because you have to go ...

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 ...

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 ...

Electric vehicles have massive batteries. Charging them involves sending a lot of power through the charging cable relatively quickly. Ford estimates an F-150 Lightning on a full charge can send ...

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 ...

The value of the copper contained in the cables that EVs use to plug into public charging stations is about $40, and that is apparently driving a spike in theft of those cables. The public charging ...

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 ...

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, ...

Police, charging network operators, and city officials have had enough of vandals stealing EV charger cables. The City of Edmonton and Edmonton Police Service launched a pilot program involving ...