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Operators need to be vigilant about cyber security at EV charging stations

Setec Powerr

According to the BBC, hackers attacked three chargers on the Isle of Wight in England and showed pornographic films on their screens. Unauthorized access to EVSE devices or backend management systems could result in personally identifiable information (PII) data theft, billing falsification (e.g., Financial/Privacy Impacts.

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

Green Car Congress

At issue is the 2012 expiration of the Kyoto Protocol, a binding but effectively unenforceable 1997 treaty that had set greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction targets for 40 industrialized countries, referred to as Annex 1 countries, yielding an average GHG reduction of 5.2% ” [ 1 ]. ºF) increase. Earlier post.)

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10 Gifts For Retrocomputing Fans

Cars That Think

But while the industry continues to look forward, more and more people are looking backward over those 45 years, and further, to the systems of the past. Check out our full write up —and personally I thought it was worth it just to play Spacewar! with the original code!

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Vehicle-to-grid is, I believe, the salvation of the automotive industry in the United States,” declared Marc Spitzer, an agency commissioner who was also on the panel. Apple coming from the computer industry to deliver iTunes and the iPod,&# he added. “You may see that start to happen in the energy sector.

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Content Credentials Will Fight Deepfakes in the 2024 Elections

Cars That Think

If the person altering the file uses a tool that supports content credentialing, information about the changes is added to the manifest that travels with the image. At the BBC, Ellis says they’ve already done trials of adding content-credential metadata to still images, but “where we need this to work is on the [social media] platforms.”

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Electric Car Makers: Oregon Wants You - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

A very low cost EV is taking a golf cart transaxle or whole GC rear/seat and weld, ect a MC front end, frame, title to it, change the batteries from 6vdc to 12vdc to double the voltage and use larger dia VW Rabbit tires and you can have a nice 1- 3 person MC trike that goes 45-55mph and 50+ mile range.

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