{"id":246579,"date":"2024-02-23T23:57:44","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T23:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/when-fentanyl-cripples-your-ev\/"},"modified":"2024-02-23T23:57:53","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T23:57:53","slug":"when-fentanyl-cripples-your-ev","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/when-fentanyl-cripples-your-ev\/","title":{"rendered":"When Fentanyl Cripples Your EV"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><em>Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News!<\/em><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p>Some recent check-ins at an EV charging station in Roswell, New Mexico, reveal a big problem: copper theft. This is something I\u2019ve covered before, but it\u2019s the first time I\u2019ve seen anything like this at a DC fast charging (Level 3) station.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, this is a story happening all over the United States. People caught in the cycle of addiction will do anything to come up with a few bucks to trade for some more pills. In my neighborhood elsewhere in New Mexico, a gang of armed thieves took advantage of an elderly woman with dementia and then set up shop stealing anything they could from the neighborhood. Every day or two, someone with a trailer would come by and collect up the stolen goods, and then someone else would show up a few minutes later with the pills.<\/p>\n<p>Worse, law enforcement in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2024\/02\/23\/when-fentanyl-cripples-your-ev\/\"target=\"_blank\">Read the full article originally published at cleantechnica.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! Some recent check-ins at an EV charging station in Roswell, New Mexico, reveal a big problem: copper theft. This is something I\u2019ve covered before, but it\u2019s the first time I\u2019ve seen anything like this at a DC fast charging [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":246580,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v20.0 (Yoast SEO v20.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>When Fentanyl Cripples Your EV - Republic of Green News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2024\/02\/23\/when-fentanyl-cripples-your-ev\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"When Fentanyl Cripples Your EV\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. 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