The latest obstacle for U.S. automakers in their effort to convert more Americans to electric vehicles? Thieves have been targeting EV charging stations. Criminals have been intent on stealing the ...

The theft of electric vehicle charging cables is on the rise, possibly fueled by the nearly record-high price of copper. The cables contain copper wiring inside of them that thieves can sell. Cable ...

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 ...

Copper remains lucrative for thieves, enough that public EV charging cables are now a target, reports the Associated Press. Charging cables contain large amounts of copper, prices for which are now at ...

Seattle City Light curbside retractable EV chargers. Shown in use on the left and ready for use on the right. (GeekWire Photo / Gillian Dohrn) At a recent climate event, representatives from Seattle ...

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 ...

DETROIT — Just before 2 a.m. on a chilly April night in Seattle, a Chevrolet Silverado pickup stopped at an electric vehicle charging station on the edge of a shopping center parking lot. Two men, one ...