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And this gets to another question. Does the BMS update that we are getting include the car side support for VIN recognition?

 

No, the current Kona cars will probably never support the plug and charge standard. I can't remember where I read about that, though.

Yes, I did and used it a couple times, it worked flawlessly for me.

 

The vehicle needs to have technology for communication built in. Currently only Tesla's have this technology but several cars coming out next year will be incorporating it, like the Mustang Mach E.

Below is a quote from a larger article linked below

"Electric vehicles will also need a way to secure the vehicle-side cryptographic key which will become common place with emerging models.
The vehicles will need to have the storage technology built in, in much the same way as paying for something with your smartphone requires NFC technology,” Kennedy said.

“Once that becomes the norm, as NFC has, you will see the incidents of Plug and Charge payments skyrocket.”

https://esdnews.com.au/tritium-launches-world-first-plug-and-charge-technology/

 

There are different methods to authenticate a car automatically. "Plug & charge" is the
full certificate-based ISO15118 style most folks are shooting for, but also look up
"autocharge" which if I understand right could work TODAY with any vehicle that
supports CCS charging. I don't think either involves the VIN, it's either the ether
MAC address of the car's charge communication controller, or an installed cert
that ties to a billing account. Both involve an initial set-up transaction.

Any questions to networks about Autocharge have fallen flat, but it *could* be
an interim / backward-compatible solution.

. https://evfleetworld.co.uk/evgo-to-roll-out-automatic-charging-across-fast-charging-network/
. https://support.fastned.nl/hc/en-gb/articles/115012747127-Autocharge-

We can do it here, WITHOUT RETROFITS, and if theory is that EVGo already supports
it I have seen zero evidence from them about it. I should call their tech people...

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I have seen discussions about how the public key aspects of 15118 are overkill, and are trying to solve problems that might not exist. And yes - the problem could come up in the future at some point, I guess, so to an extent they are future-proofing the thing.

 

It's totally overkill, just like the failure of meaningful public-key infrastructure
on tne internet is. It's someone's grad CS thesis grown into a monster, as I
mention in my DCFC page,. Until vehicle owners start widely cloning MAC
addresses in charge communicztion gear, the whole thing can be simpler
and more accessible to current owners as well as future ones. And the same
kind of fraud detection that happens with static-value credit cards would
come into play.

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