As Europe and the U.S. push to ramp up development and sales of electric vehicles, researchers are concerned that cybersecurity is being neglected. In the worst of cases, hackers could engineer blackouts and do damage to entire electric grids by infiltrating charging stations and networks, officials and security analysts warn. “If you have hundreds of thousands of chargers, you are a target,” said
Harm van den Brink,
a cybersecurity specialist at ElaadNL, a research organization in the Netherlands focused on testing EV charging.
In April, the Biden administration proposed tougher car emissions targets to accelerate the transition to EVs and has called for them to make up half of all new vehicle sales by 2030. The European Union has gone further, ...
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