Hiding EV charger cords

Fred B said:
Wouldn't stop the theft of the cord, just make it easier. Who actually stands by to "guard" the cord while its charging.
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Big difference. The BOY cord is only present during charging, rather than 24/7/365 attached to a charging station. For curbsides or late-night desolate lots, that's a big improvement.
The BYO cords do lock on both sides.
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The copper thefts are presumably mostly unattended stations where the conductors are not live at the time of the theft.
 
brycenesbitt said:
In Europe the solution is detachable EVSE cords. And such cords may soon be part of J3400, for exactly this purpose.
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Building on this Idea. What about installing a pin and sleeve plug below the EV charger and a cord end on the EV charger cord. A 5 Pin connector rated for 60-amps would make that removable. Then they could have the EV charger behind the cage at night with nor cord, less incentive for theft, then during the day when they wanted to use it they would bring it out and connect it.
 
Update to my own update. I think the best solution I have found is actually to just install an outdoor 50-amp plug and sell the customer a portable EV charger similar to this guy https://grizzl-e.com/products/grizzl-e-mini/

Then they just remove and store the charger inside the building itself at night and bust it out when it is needed.
 
Copper price is high. There were pictures on the news of thieves steeling AC condensing units. Cut the wires cut the refrigerant lines and wheeling them away on a hand truck.

The news said 25000 dollar fine for letting the refrigerant out as if the thieves care about that.
 
Can't they make SO Cord with Kevlar in it so it's extra hard to cut. Obviously it wouldn't stop it completely but if it's annoying then it won't be as likely to happen. Other option could be put the same limits on it as cat converters have now where you need to show how you got it. It didn't stop it but did make it harder.
 
Eddie702 said:
... The news said 25000 dollar fine for letting the refrigerant out as if the thieves care about that.
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Up to five years incarceration for "knowingly" violating the ozone-protection statutes.

But it might be a challenge for a prosecutor to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that they knew what they were doing.
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Criminal Provisions of the Clean Air Act | US EPA

Describes the criminal provisions of the Clean Air Act
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drcampbell said:
Up to five years incarceration for "knowingly" violating the ozone-protection statutes.

But it might be a challenge for a prosecutor to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that they knew what they were doing.
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There's one where ignorance should be no defense; the damage is the same.
 
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