Recently I pointed out that US charging station cable theft has been a growing problem for years.
And core to that story is the simple analysis that cables are unnecessary for charging stations. EV owners should bring their own cables to plug into a socket.
A new Gravity announcement proves the problem, with a design that illustrates tone-deafness on multiple levels.
Tree? A lynching tree maybe. Looks like a haunting gallows design to me.
They are asking cities to pour even more money down the mounted cable mindset, and not even addressing a rising decade of threats, let alone the historical significance of promoting a “hanging tree” design from the 1830s.
Notably the rather cruel Gravity illustration shows their new pole is to be injected into sidewalks to further reduce pedestrian space.
Bad idea for cities.
While some might be impressed the huge long cable is dangling up high, making it harder to cut, that’s also why it brings a much higher (no pun intended) cost to replace amd repair. And because it’s a much longer cable, it’s even more likely to be targeted.
The company could have just mounted sockets in existing utility poles.
Sockets in existing poles just make so much more sense, instead of adding more poles and creating extra sidewalk hazards, which reduce pedestrian space and probably just end up with cut power cables anyway.
