Charging cable theft and vandalism
Charging cables are cut for copper and units vandalised in minutes. Repairs are slow and expensive, and an out-of-order charger costs custom every day it's dark.
EV Charger & Car Park Security Cameras
EV charging bays concentrate two tempting things in unattended places: copper cable and parked vehicles. Private car parks add a third — disputes about who was there and when. A solar 4G camera covers bays, entrances and far corners without trenching a live car park, and records every vehicle that arrives.
26WSolar panel included — sized for UK winters
64GBLocal storage included, no cloud subscription required
4GMulti-network SIM: EE, O2, Three & Vodafone
24/7Adaptive recording with person & vehicle alerts
Why charging bays and car parks get targeted
The infrastructure is valuable, the locations are quiet out of hours, and until recently almost none of it was watched.
Vehicle crime in quiet corners
Cars parked for hours — at chargers, park-and-rides, staff car parks — are browsing stock for opportunists, especially in unlit corners.
Misuse and disputes
Bay blocking, overnight dumping, fly-parking and “I was never there” disputes all need one thing to resolve: a record of vehicles in and out.
Power everywhere, CCTV nowhere
Ironically, charger sites have power — but tapping it for CCTV means electricians, isolation and disruption. A self-powered camera skips the whole question.
How solar 4G cameras work across a car park
No trenching, no ducting, no downtime — a pole and a bracket per camera, and every unit reports to the same app.
- Entrance first, bays secondA camera on the entrance records every vehicle in and out with vehicle-detection alerts. A second unit watches the charging bays themselves — the cable side, ideally elevated on an existing lighting column or pole.
- Mount high on what's already thereLighting columns, boundary poles and building corners all take the included fixings. Height protects the camera and lengthens sightlines across rows.
- Alerts out of hoursPerson and vehicle detection pushes clips to the CamHipro app the moment something moves after closing — to the site owner, facilities team or security contractor's phones.
- Scale as the site growsEach camera is independent, so adding bays or reconfiguring the car park never means re-cabling a system — move the pole, move the camera.
Built for destination chargers and private car parks
The fastest-growing charging estate in the UK isn’t motorway services — it’s destination chargers: pubs, village halls, rural hotels, holiday parks and community hubs adding two or four bays at the edge of an existing car park. Those are precisely the sites with no control room and no appetite for civil works, and precisely where a self-contained camera fits. The same logic covers staff car parks, residents’ parking and small commercial sites.
Because footage records locally to each camera’s included 64GB card, a multi-camera site carries no per-camera cloud fees — SIM data is the only running cost. And a visible camera over the bays does double duty: it deters the cable thief and reassures the driver deciding whether to trust your site with their car for an hour.
Signage matters here: car parks are shared spaces, so display clear CCTV signage naming the operator, point cameras at your own site rather than the highway, and keep footage access to named staff. Done properly, the signage itself resolves half the disputes.
The right kit for chargers and car parks
Solar for poles, corners and bay lines; the powered zoom camera on the building for plate-readable detail at the entrance.
No mains power
Solar 360 Mini
Pole-mounted over bays and entrances with zero trenching — the practical choice for live car parks where digging is a non-starter.
- 3MP pan-and-tilt camera with person and vehicle detection
- 26W solar panel and 15,600mAh battery — no mains supply needed
- 64GB memory card included, expandable to 256GB
- Unlocked, with a multi-network SIM covering EE, O2, Three & Vodafone
Mains power available
Mini PTZ
On the building with mains power, using optical zoom to read plates and faces the length of the car park.
- Powered 4G pan-and-tilt camera with optical zoom
- Continuous power for constant, detailed coverage
- Local recording with person detection
- Same CamHipro app and UK support as the solar camera
Already have cameras that just need a connection? Our multi-network streaming SIMs work in any unlocked 4G camera.
EV charger & car park camera questions, answered
Can it read number plates?
Position matters more than anything: a camera angled along the entrance where vehicles slow gives the best plate capture, and the Mini PTZ's optical zoom adds readable detail at distance. For formal ANPR enforcement you'd pair cameras with a dedicated ANPR system.
Will it deter cable theft or just record it?
Both jobs matter. A visible camera over the bays moves opportunists on; if a theft happens anyway, timestamped footage of the person and vehicle supports the police report and the repair claim.
Do we need to dig up the car park?
No — that's the point. Each camera is self-powered from its solar panel and connects over 4G, so installation is a pole or column bracket, not a trench.
Can facilities and security both get alerts?
Yes. The CamHipro app runs on multiple phones, so the owner, facilities team and out-of-hours contractor can all view live feeds and receive alerts.
What are the running costs?
SIM data only — from £5/month per camera — because recording is local to each camera's included memory card, with no compulsory cloud subscription.
Put every bay on the record
Self-contained cameras for entrances, bays and dark corners — installed without closing a single space.
Buy with confidence: every 4GCCTV camera comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee, an 18-month warranty and free lifetime support from our UK-based team.