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Chinese car brands are gaining an increasing stronghold on Britain's car market - but older drivers remain skeptical over concerns about privacy risk, market research says. Registrations figures for 2024 show a 14% increase in sales of models from the four major Chinese brands now available in the UK: BYD, MG, Omoda and Ora.  These made up 5% of all new cars bought in Britain last year, representing almost 100,000 motors entering the road.

Many of these are electric vehicles as China continues t

As we enter the age of the software-defined automobile, especially those with electric drivetrains, we’re facing unprecedented risk from cyberattacks, say a wide coterie of experts. According to the Israel-based Upstream firm, from 2019 to 2023 disclosed cybersecurity incidents in the automotive and mobility space increased by more than 50%, with 295 such occurrences in 2023.  Some 64% of these attacks were executed by “bad hat actors” with malevolent intent, the report said. And 65% of deep and

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act,[1] as passed by the US Congress in November 2021, authorizes $7.5 billion to help meet US President Joe Biden's goal of installing 500,000 electric vehicle charging stations by 2030.  Biden aims to have EVs represent half of all new vehicles being sold in the US by 2030.  But as the number of stations increases, the number of vulnerabilities does as well.

For the past several years, hackers have been busy targeting their cyber-attacks at electrical sys