Battery Management App Hacking of E-Rickshaws: A New Cybersecurity Frontier in India’s EV Transition
The Union Government has ordered the blocking of several battery management applications after discovering that malicious actors were remotely immobilising e-rickshaw batteries — even while vehicles were transporting passengers — by exploiting security vulnerabilities in apps developed largely by Chinese firms, including Shenzhen Grenergy Technology, Shenzhen Ruichuang Lineng Technology, and Daly BMS. In one documented…