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With many countries now participating in the Paris Agreement to address climate change, coupled with the rising popularity of electric vehicles, it is expected that 125 million electric cars will be on the road worldwide by 2030. But these cars, although beneficial to the environment, come with cybersecurity risks. According to experts, security concerns should be addressed before a massive rollout of electric vehicles take place. While the United States has less than 5.4 million hybrid electric vehicles on its roads (based on numbers from 1999 to 2019), the slow growth of the American market might suddenly experience a spike before cybersecurity risks involving charging stations and the energy grid are reduced or removed.
Policy changes
As the United States started working on policy changes to reduce carbon emissions from its transport sector, 327,000 plug-in electric vehicles were sold in the country. And this was in 2019 alone. Although this…
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Posted by: Karoline Gore |
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December 07, 2020 at 09:09PM
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