If copper thieves are stealing charging cables, the solution is dead simple…
Keep the cables on the car side, not the charger side. Provide an outlet on the charger, driver supplies their own cable.
Nah, make the cable retractable, and only release it after a payment method has been approved. Also post security or put charging stations near police departments.
That would work for Level 2 charging, but Level 3 DC fast charging requires a recirculating liquid cooling jacket inside the cable close to the conductor to allow the high current fast charging.
I mean, it looks do-able, you just need something like this with a plug on both ends:
“150 max amp @ 600 volt DC”
Those are the older style cables that aren’t liquid cooled.
Cost would be a big issue too. You see that replacement cable is listed at $575 as is. It would be even more for the double ended version (and I’m not sure two connectors is allowed in the CCS 2 spec).
The car already has water cooling anyway. But the cable could also just be not hanging around freely.
The car already has water cooling anyway.
Car cooling cools the car, not the cable. If you’re removing the cooling requirement from the cable you either burn up the cable or downrate the charging session to be significantly slower.
But the cable could also just be not hanging around freely.
Where are you proposing the cable go if not hanging/attached to the charger?
The cable is with the car in this proposed case, why should the existing cooling not be able to cool it?
I’m the other case, of course it is connected to the charger. Just not freely dangling around outside for everyone to grab it. The same way the hoses of a fuel station mostly stay in the pump. Now just add a little bit more protection to this existing system and boom done.
This could work, but it would be extremely wasteful. Instead of one cable serving dozens of cars per day you’d have dozens of cables, one for each car, used only once that same day
Each driver carrying their own cable wouldn’t have to worry about the quality of the cable on the charger.
just do wireless charging
