The Chinese Government could bring Britain’s roads to a standstill by remotely stopping Chinese-made electric cars, MPs have been warned. The Mail has more.
The possibility of China remotely controlling EVs and stealing drivers’ data presents a “major security threat” that could be exploited if its relationship with the U.K. badly deteriorated, an expert claimed.
Sales of electric cars made by Chinese manufacturers have been rising and Beijing plans to expand its EVs to Europe.
Professor Jim Saker, President of the Motor Industry, told MPs that electric vehicles “flooding” into Britain could be “the most effective Trojan Horse” at the Chinese Communist Party’s disposal.
Professor Saker made the claims in a report submitted to Parliament’s National Security Strategy Committee, which examines threats to the U.K.’s economic security.
The expert, who is also Director of the Centre for Automotive Management at Loughborough University, warned Chinese-made electric cars could give spies access to “big data” as well as personal data.
“We know that at the moment connected vehicles can be stopped remotely,” he wrote in a submission reported by the Times.
“If this happened on a motorway at 70mph and the automatic braking system was applied to a vehicle the traffic would simply pile in the back. If this occurred at strategic points it could gridlock cities.
“Chinese-connected EV’s flooding the country could be the most effective Trojan horse that the Chinese establishment has to impact the U.K.”
China is home to BYD, the world’s bestselling manufacturer of electric cars. The firm sold 526,409 EVs in the final quarter of last year, compared with 484,507 for Tesla.
Former MI6 chief Sir Richard Dearlove is among those warning of the potential threat they pose, and recently called on the Government to consider banning Government ministers from using Chinese-made electric vehicles.
Last year former Tory leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith claimed Chinese tracking devices had been installed on Rishi Sunak’s official car, although Number 10 declined to comment.
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So if we buy EVs China gets all our data and can cripple our cars.
And if we stick to combustion engines, we have to buy oil from unsavoury nations like Russia or Middle Eastern totalitarian states.
Yep, I can see why they keep putting in rules to discourage people from driving private cars altogether.
Oil can be bought in many places and e can even get it out of the ground ourselves if we could only stop the Greenies preventing it. It is also easily stored.
On the contrary, electricity cannot be stored in meaningful amounts and once an EV is turned off a new set of control circuits and / or software will be reiuired to overcome CCP control
I’m all for fossil fuels.
But getting it isn’t as straightforward as you suggest. There is a good reason it drives geopolitics
Where do you think the electricity comes from? Rainbow juice?
A great hullaballoo. ——-How dare Chinese control us. Don’t they know that it is the UN planet savers in conjunction with our WEF lackey political class whose job it is to control every aspect of our lives. ——-What central heating, what food, what car, what we can say, what we can think, whether we can travel across the town we have lived in for 50 years, whether we can go on holiday without feeling guilty and shelling out carbon taxes.etc etc. ——-Yes how dare the Chinese. Our pretend to save the planet governments should tell the Chinese to butt out and that they have this covered.
“If this happened on a motorway at 70mph…”
If the Chinese regime can engage in such nefariousness, so can the UK, US, Israeli and Russian regimes and likely anyone else who can be arsed.
Meanwhile, EV buses, cars and bikes actually combust and LTN’s and JSO bring cities to a standstill. No need for the CCP to take time out a busy day.
Except the UK and US probably can’t be arsed, and even if we could we’d muck it up.
The unanswered question is why China would want to bring cities to a standstill and crash cars on motorways on the other side of the world, rather than sell them more cars and make money.
It would seem we’d need to wage war on them first, perhaps over the island of Taiwan on the other side of the world from us.
The warning couldn’t have anything to do with wanting to demonise China to make waging such a war seem a good idea, I suppose?
That is a very interesting point. China or other hostile nations don’t need to go to such lengths to attack western infrastructure, as witnessed by the huge Singapore ship that veered off course just before smashing into the Baltimore Bridge. Here’s a comment in the Daily Mail article on it:
“My husband is a merchant mariner that works out of Baltimore. He navigates cargo ships through that passage all the time as both Chief Mate, 2nd and 3rd Officer on various ships. Two things are happening that are going to increase these accidents and the media is failing by not reporting it:
1. The erosion of the Jones Act 2. Diversity hiring over merit. If you hear someone demand we repeal the Jones Act, that means instead of companies being forced to hired US crew while navigating US ports they can hire foreign crew. US crew have to go through extensive years of training, knowledge testing, health evaluations, government background security clearance checks, and yearly training.
Foreign crew do not. This might not have been a foreign captain, but look at who the maintenance crew down in engineering has been for the last six months. What were their credentials? The DEI hiring I don’t have to explain, look at Boeing. They are putting very young and inexperienced women on these ships as captains in their late 20’s early 30’s for social media photo ops. The maritime industry needs accountability on hiring practices.”
Thanks for that …..Interesting.
Thanks for reading it. It’s amazing how the experiences of ordinary people commenting on media articles like that can bring in a whole new dimension.
And the Daily Mail has the widest possible readership, with comments from people all over the world. Their comments are always worth reading.
By the way, I have been banned for years from commenting in the Daily Mail, and everywhere, except here in the Daily Sceptic.
It makes me appreciate Toby Young and his team even more, for fighting for Freedom of Speech.
Yes Mailonline can be a frustrating experience. I have had comments not appearing because the world Africa was in it, or the world terrorist. Quite often comments will simply not appear at all for any apparent reason. You also get the emails saying “Due to a number of complaints………..you comment has been removed”. ——Ok I appreciate there has to be rules regarding profanity etc, but Daily Sceptic has never failed to allow a comment from me.
It could be incompetence but why did the lights go out on the ship just before reaching the bridge?
That’s sone technical failure…
https://twitter.com/MJTruthUltra/status/1772597999627120656?t=RhLXeE50qdHNPwVGQBet-A&s=19
I don’t think it was incompetence, either, but agree with many of those who said it was deliberate. The ship was guided by two tugboats until it had a clear, straight run, then the lights went out and it suddenly veered off course straight for the bridge support. I don’t think terrorism can be ruled out.
Scroll down this article to 6th illustration from the bottom, with the Map Tracker showing the two tugboats:
Baltimore bridge’s $81 BILLION trade crisis: Ship crash sparks chaos for US goods as collapse blocks ninth-largest hub for foreign goods that handles 52 million tons a year – with 10 vessels stuck in harbor | Daily Mail Online
Here’s a good BBC video, but doesn’t show the tugs:
Baltimore bridge: The critical moments before ship collision – BBC News
Being reported by the WSJ that “dirty fuel” is a leading contender. Fuel needed to power the electrical system. Lots of ship’s systems depend on electricity. Why dirty? Should be investigated, of course. And there are probably other causes. Won’t be just one.
Makes you not want to fly again, that also pleases the globalists!
I stopped wanting to fly after the horror stories of passengers being humiliated with strip-searches and body scanners, especially by the US Transportation Security Administration, while Muslim men and women in full body coverings were waved through on the nod.
A neighbour once said he couldn’t understand why every time his family went on annual holiday to Spain, his beautiful blonde wife was always singled out for special security searches, but never him. I told him about the criminal TSA staff who admitted deliberately setting off the security alarms for women they fancied.
It’s disgusting.
If competition (political, economic and military) gets warmer ith China I can see every reason why they might like to demonstrate their powers over the west.
That’s rather the point, I think: attempts to interfere with China politically, to thwart its economic growth, or to threaten it militarily are the provocation that would, understandably, elicit a response.
I presume that by control you mean turn the power on and off. All the control gear for steering remotely is going to be difficult to conceal as is seeing where it is going as I guess an technician might just spot a camera.
How about your smart doorbell cam?
Your router?
Anything in fact that is CCP manufactured that is wifi connected.
Add to the mix these things are made by Chinese slave labour working for couple of cents an hour in appalling conditions, long hours.
Don’t buy them.
Can’t help wondering about 5G – who got the contracts for the infrastructure? This was an issue just prior to the c19 ‘roll out’ if my memory serves me correctly. Went suddenly quiet and then the masts started popping up everywhere!
…… or am I becoming paranoid in my old age?
“MPs Warned”?
MPs have spent over 4 years doing everything to destroy this country.
Surely this will be music to their ears.
“Sir Iain Duncan Smith claimed Chinese tracking devices had been installed on Rishi Sunak’s official car”…..Maybe Jeremy Hunt’s wife stuck them on his car.
Yes, we are being manipulated into worrying about China, while Indian Subcontinentals are buying up everything in the West, especially top positions in government, business and the legal system.
China is being used as a scapegoat to distract attention from the Indian Subcontinental takeover of the West. How many Chinese are leaders of western nations, for example? None.
China is India’s ancient enemy, not ours.
Simple, just legislate to remove the possibility of data transmission over the airwaves for all cars sold.
Electric cars being remote controlled, reminds me of the new movie out ‘Leave The World Behind’, based on a cyber attack on the US.
Ah, you mean just like the UK government or blob can close down any home or business by de-activating their smart meter.
Or the way WHO will be able to close down any class of persons (or maybe individuals, who knows) by fiat.
That sort of “closing down”.
Not nice herever authoritarian, unaccountable control comes from.
They don’t need China to bring British cities to a standstill. That appears to be the official policy of HM Government, via puppets like Khan and the Eco Nutters in Oxford, Glasgow and others.
It’s not just CCP that might be able to hack into any car connected to the internet …
On one had it’s good this risk of car hacking discussed, but to conflate geopolitics with the issue is suspect.
Your observation is right, anything with an internet connection is suspect to external influences. Give a supplier direct access to your purchase via an APP, and the only thing you have purchased is the right to use that product how the supplier deems fit, so don’t be surprised when one day it doesn’t work how you wanted it to do.
“China Could Remotely Control British Electric Cars and Bring Cities to a Standstill, MPs Warned.”
Too late!
Local Councils and Conservative Government already doing that.
And why do these nitwits persist with the belief people are going to buy BEVs – can’t they read? People don’t want them.