ChargePoint CEO Rick Wilmer spoke to Ars Technica and explained how he decided to take action after chargers at the company’s own Silicon Valley headquarters were repeatedly cut. Here is how he describes making the new cable:

ChargePoint has had enough of vandalizing thieves who saw through EV charger cables to steal valuable copper — so now it’s making new “cut-resistant” cables and adding alarm systems in an attempt to mitigate the damage.

Stealing copper from EV charging cables is all the rage right now, thanks to a high market price of $4.44 per pound. This is great for thieves since the cables are incredibly easy to access, but it leaves EV owners in one hell of a pickle - especially since EV chargers are still fairly rare outside of major cities (though that is changing).

The Campbell, California-based charging network announced Thursday a two-pronged plan to deter EV charging equipment vandalism. The first step is adding new cut-resistant cables that ChargePoint hopes spreads industry-wide. The second is a new alarm system called ChargePoint Protect.

But the problem has become particularly acute for electric vehicle drivers in recent years, as many have come to roll up on public chargers for much-needed juice ... only to find the cables cut and gone,

Looking to stop potential vandals before they act, the EV charging company introduced a new set of cut-resistant cables in conjunction with a new alarm system.

His customers are starting to get fed up with the problem, too, and so Wilmer has had the company hard at work on a solution: an uncuttable cable, which should be ready to deploy by early summer. "I literally got so frustrated

ChargePoint (NYSE: CHPT), a leading provider of networked charging solutions for electric vehicles (EVs), today announced two innovative new solutions to combat charger vandalism, featuring a new cut-resistant charging cable and ChargePoint® Protect,