The cable locks to both your car and the charging pole, at least where I live

Reasonable concern, though:

1. If every car has one, they become a commodity, so how much value will they actually end up having?

2. There are locking cables available:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKaEhBjt1ls

Most of the price is in the copper inside. Walk around with an insulated bolt cutter, and you can make a lot of money. Alibaba will sell you a device to get the insulation off the wire. Plenty of scrappers bring copper into the scrap yards already.

I wouldn't do it, but it is easy to see how a dishonest person could make it work.

The cable is closer to 300-400€. (7 meter 32A Type 2)

It locks to the pole when it's charging, and the car can be set up to lock its end until the car is unlocked.

Non-issue.

The cable can be cut with $30 Bolt Cutters, and sold to the scrappers for its weight in copper. Multiply by the number of cars charging that night on one street. Faster, cleaner and tons more profitable than cutting catalyst converters from under the cars.

It also has up to 32 amps of current running through it. Better get those industrial cutters with proper insulation =)

BTW, are all scrappers completely unethical? People steal the weirdest shit for the value of the metal and they always seem to find some scrapyard that'll take it and pay for it.

The cable itself, charger, dongle or whatever they are calling it has safety circuity and will cut charging at the slightest hint of overcurrent.