Over 50 EV charging stations vandalized across Fresno

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Across the City of Fresno, 88 electrical conveyance charging stations were installed to accommodate the accrued fig of EV cars connected the road.

Each presumption comes with a hefty terms tag.

"A emblematic outgo of a charging presumption is anyplace from $50,000 to $75,000, depending connected the determination and the infrastructure indispensable to conception the charger," explained Jennifer Clark, the City of Fresno's Director of Planning and Development.

Fast guardant to today, dozens of the charging stations person been vandalized leaving them inoperable.

"Out of the 88 that the City of Fresno has, astir 50-60 person been vandalized, and aggregate times arsenic well," said Melissa Almaguer, parking part manager with the City of Fresno.

"The copper wiring, the wiring that provides the powerfulness to the presumption arsenic good arsenic the stations themselves, has a batch of invaluable metals successful them," added Clark.

But the metropolis does person a program of enactment to combat copper ligament thieves and to get the EV stations up and moving erstwhile again.

Each charging presumption volition get a customized alloy furniture built astir it with a hockey puck benignant fastener attached, and it volition beryllium locked up each night.

"We bash not repair the ones that person been damaged until the alloy furniture has been installed. And past we repair them, but successful summation to that, we person besides accrued our security," added Almaguer.

So far, 50 charging stations person been encased. The further charging stations are expected to beryllium repaired and moving by the summer.

And the outgo for the customized cabinets volition travel retired to astir $176,000 for each 88 charging stations.

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