There are cut or stolen cables. Association wants heavier and more safety punishments – in the equipment itself, or in the chambers.
Who wants to charge your vehicle electric num public post, may have been through problems over the last few weeks: many are being vandalized or registering thefts.
“We had an occurrence per month Or less than that, right now, we have two or three, sometimes more, a day. So there in Early August, they went to dozens of posts daily. There was an exponential growth. ”
The report is from Pedro Faria, president of the Portuguese Association of Electric Vehicle Users, on Radio.
Em Almada There was even a clear lack of posts: “Between 7 and 8 August, 80% of the fast loading stations were inoperative ”. Leiria and Grande Lisbon are the regions with the highest number of crimes.
Carlos Ferraz, president of the Portuguese Association of Operators and Electric Mobility Traders, adds: “There are loading stations that have stayed a few days unavailable ”.
“We are really concerned when we realize that the customer arrives at the scene to charge and the post is vandalized, which makes it impossible to load,” says Carlos Ferraz.
The focus is cabos, that are cut or stolen. The idea of criminals is to extract raw materials, such as copper.
Pedro Faria Espera Punishes Heavier: “It takes a more effective criminal frame, one has to study this problem, it has to be able to solve with additional safety measures in the equipment itself or in the surveillance cameras that normally exist in these stations.”
Associations fear that potential buyers move away from the tram, because they do not have a loading posts on the public road.
