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Tesla Installing Countermeasures as People Are Hacking the Cables Off Superchargers

futurism.com Tesla Installing Countermeasures as People Are Hacking the Cables Off Superchargers

Amid a spate of vandalism at Supercharger stations, Tesla appears to be employing countermeasures to head off the theft of its copper cables.

Just get rid of the charging stations. It's ridiculous that EV owners should expect to charge their cars anywhere but at home or at work.

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Just get rid of the fuel stations. It’s ridiculous that vehicles owners should expect to refuel their cars anywhere but at home or at work
- Just get rid of the cars. Build cities built for human communities, not for cars and mega corporations. Electric vehicles are a band-aid solution that’s not going to save us, and doesn’t solve the fundamental problem.
- I'm inclined to agree that all motorized personal vehicles and their attendant infrastructure should be eliminated. However, you're making a false equivalency. I live in New Jersey, so it takes maybe five minutes for me to completely refuel my car with gasoline. My understanding is that it takes six times as long to charge a big EV to ~80%. Therefore, a single fueling station can serve many more people with a much smaller footprint. Furthermore, fuel gets consumed, whereas batteries are mostly dead weight that occasionally do the thermal runaway thing.
  
  I really like the "thermal runaway thing" expression, and yeah it is a false equivalency but it’s a funny one.
  EV charging and the tech around it can be slow today, but it doesn’t mean we should abandon and go back to what we know is working (as some people want to). This is a recipe for zero innovation and not the way to become a Star Trek like civilization.
  In my city there are electric buses that charge in a few seconds at some stops along the route. No overhead wires, no big diesel engines and no noise.
  We just need to work and improve those new vehicles, find better than the actual EV and combustion engines as well.
  
  Which buses are those?
  My position is that the development of long range BEVs (and all the externalities associated with manufacturing and disposing of these batteries) has been an incredible detour. We already had the technology for fuel cell EVs with as much range as ICE vehicles. Meanwhile, short range BEVs are great because they solve the problem of refueling and avoid the problem of recharging, since you can do it while you sleep work. Long range BEVs just trade refueling for "fast" recharging, which is actually slower and more inconvenient than refueling. Where we really need innovation and development is in mass, public transit.
  
  It’s the TOSA https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOSA_(bus)
  
  all motorized personal vehicles and their attendant infrastructure should be eliminated
  I live in New Jersey, so
  Nuff said.

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