[londons_explore]

With a battery powered disc cutter you can have the $15k battery out inside 10 minutes.

[Tade0]

$15k worth of battery weighs at least 453kg(1000lbs). Might as well just steal the entire car.

[theshrike79]

Theoretically. In practice there will be a crispy fried battery thief under the car in the morning.

I'm not seeing a huge market in stealing batteries from EV any time soon. Most are literally built into the frame and would require taking apart the whole car.