The motorway services charger count is a bit of a moving target. Should we be counting 50kW chargers now, given that the fail the "charge during a McDonalds" test?
On the subject of cable theft, if we assume 5% of charging will eventually come from public DC chargers, the market is 30m x 15/3 x 365 x £0.05 x 0.05, or ~£150m. We are only at 4% of that ultimate potential, so that £0.5m represents about 10% of the industry profits being lost.
Obviously it would have failed had the owner tried to get approval, but the Cybertruck was seized because it hadn't got the approval paperwork, rather than because it would have failed.
The motorway services charger count is a bit of a moving target. Should we be counting 50kW chargers now, given that the fail the "charge during a McDonalds" test?
On the subject of cable theft, if we assume 5% of charging will eventually come from public DC chargers, the market is 30m x 15/3 x 365 x £0.05 x 0.05, or ~£150m. We are only at 4% of that ultimate potential, so that £0.5m represents about 10% of the industry profits being lost.
Obviously it would have failed had the owner tried to get approval, but the Cybertruck was seized because it hadn't got the approval paperwork, rather than because it would have failed.