Hutt Valley resident Michael Taylor was in his friend’s vehicle on Friday, when they pulled up to a high capacity charger by Avalon Park.<\/p>\n
They hoped to charge up fast, but were halted by the cut wire.<\/p>\n
“We got there and all of the copper cables from the cabinet were basically all chopped off.”<\/p>\n
![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/a-lower-hutt-resident-found-the-cables-broken-GKYGG6CIBVD6FL4VWGROG5DSZ4.jpg\")
<\/p>\n
A Lower Hutt resident found the cables broken. (Source: rnz.co.nz)<\/p>\n
While there were other places nearby to charge up, Taylor said it was inconvenient and a “major pain in the neck”.<\/p>\n
Meridian, who own the EV chargers, said they were really disappointed their public EV chargers had been damaged.<\/p>\n
“At a time of increased fuel prices, public EV chargers offer people a lower-cost option for their travel,” Lisa Hannifin, Meridian chief customer officer said.<\/p>\n
“We’re currently looking into the extent of the damage and how long it will take to repair them, as well as reviewing CCTV footage and working with police.”<\/p>\n
Hutt Valley area commander inspector Wade Jennings said police received a report of a copper theft in the Hutt Valley, and are making enquiries into the matter.<\/p>\n
However, he said police had not seen a noticeable increase in these incidents.<\/p>\n
He advised the public to call 111 if they see a theft or any suspicious activity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A public electric vehicle charger in Wellington has been left without charging cables, prompting a police report for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[67,42,43,40,38,41,39,52],"class_list":["post-434371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-wellington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}