The United Kingdom’s largest EV fast charging operator is adding several security layers to stop cable theft. InstaVolt’s latest idea is to fit GPS trackers into charging cables. That’s in addition to ...

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 ...

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 ...

ChargePoint is building hard to cut cables and adding tamper-detection alarms to EV charging stations. ChargePoint is building hard to cut cables and adding tamper-detection alarms to EV charging ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

CAMPBELL, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ChargePoint (NYSE: CHPT), a leading provider of networked charging solutions for electric vehicles (EVs), today announced two innovative new solutions to combat ...

Perhaps this outcome isn’t inevitable. ChargePoint, one of the larger station networks in North America, has announced two innovations that could reduce the instance of theft and vandalism. The first ...

Until recently, car owners were terrified of thieves cutting the catalytic converters off their vehicles. Now, a new trend is on the rise, as thieves found out that charging cables contain precious ...