Criminals Are Throwing A Wrench Into Biden’s EV Agenda. Here’s How
Criminals are increasingly stealing cables from electric vehicle (EV) charging stations around the country, according to The Associated Press. In a growing trend, thieves are targeting EV chargers to cut off their…
Criminals are increasingly stealing cables from electric vehicle (EV) charging stations around the country, according to The Associated Press.
In a growing trend, thieves are targeting EV chargers to cut off their cables and take the valuable copper contained inside the wiring, often rendering the vandalized chargers useless until repairs can be made, according to the AP. Especially if they accelerate, the thefts could be another hurdle for the Biden administration’s major EV push, which has struggled to beat back consumers’ concerns about EV range and charger availability.
The amount of copper contained in one cable is generally could yield around $20, and the criminals targeting stations will often steal as many of the wires as they can at one site, according to the AP, citing an estimate from Robert Carson, a Houston, Texas, police officer who runs a unit focused on metal theft. Such thefts have been documented in Washington state, Nevada, California, Arizona, Colorado, Illinois, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas and Pennsylvania.