Cables should be carried in the cars. There will be malicious vandalism that will hurt the charger station networks. The cable is the easiest target. Here in CA we have chargers from the first round of EVs and their cables are routinely destroyed and the connectors smashed or run over. I can take pictures of them.
In the old days when there were pay phones (in booths) the cables were steal jacketed and still ripped out by uncaring hooligans. You could simply walk down the street to find another public phone but in a car it's a much bigger deal and you might reeeeealy need that charge.
Copper is expensive. Scrap prices on a cable is worth one heck of a lot of aluminum cans!
Conspiracy alert!
Those who hate EVs can hire vandals to wreck charge stations. On person could do a lot of damage in one night. The press could be alerted and take the side of "this won't work".
I'll let you write in the nefarious names here.
In the old days when there were pay phones (in booths) the cables were steal jacketed and still ripped out by uncaring hooligans. You could simply walk down the street to find another public phone but in a car it's a much bigger deal and you might reeeeealy need that charge.
Copper is expensive. Scrap prices on a cable is worth one heck of a lot of aluminum cans!
Conspiracy alert!
Those who hate EVs can hire vandals to wreck charge stations. On person could do a lot of damage in one night. The press could be alerted and take the side of "this won't work".
I'll let you write in the nefarious names here.
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