I PARKED in Sainsbury’s car park, Kidderminster, opposite the row of EV charging bays and noticed that next to me was a mobile power supply powering a group of CCTV cameras.

I wondered what the reason was for this then while walking past the EV chargers I noticed the cables had been chopped off.

This was bound to happen as I had written about years ago to Mark Garnier and the government.

Putting up CCTV cameras will not stop this happening again.

All they will do is record people in hoodies and masks and their vehicles with blanked-out number plates.

People will still turn up the next morning unable to charge their cars and eventually Sainsbury’s will not be able to afford the cost of constant replacement.

This is only one example of thieves taking the cables for the scrap value.

If there is a big increase in EV ownership and numerous houses in a street are charging cars overnight, which would be the norm, it will provide easy pickings for thieves.

Because of the time it takes to charge a car you cannot just stand by your car until it is fully charged.

This is just another example of why battery cars are not a practical solution burning fossil fuels.

The governments around the world should have got their scientists to find a cheaper way, other than electrolysis, to part hydrogen from oxygen in water.

Then we could have hydrogen-powered cars that would be far cleaner for the environment than battery cars.

After all, scientists managed to split the atom to provide nuclear power.

Breaking the bond between molecules can’t be as difficult to do as that and we will never run out of hydrogen.

Paul Dakin

Kidderminster

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