Tesla’s charging stations left other manufacturers in the dust

Re:Tesla’s charging stations left other manufacturers in the... by netsharc on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @01:18PM (#25931731)

> Even though the plug is standard, you actually can't charge a non Tesla on a Tesla charger because the charger only accepts Tesla.

If I had an electric car I'd try to figure out the auth protocol, surely software-wise it's possible to pretend that a Tesla is plugged in (worst case is that there's a cryptographically secure key exchange, and someone would have to extract the key from a Tesla).

Hah, an adapter that pretends to be a Tesla that plugs between the supercharger and your car, that would fit in a cyberpunk-ish 2021.

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Re:Tesla’s charging stations left other manufacturers in the... by oneplane on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @01:28PM (#25931874)

IIRC they use PKI with your keypair bound to your account. So if you own a Tesla and hack it you can pretend another car is that Tesla. You can also hack someone else's car but then they'd have to pay for your charging and that'd probably be stealing or something like that.

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Re:Tesla’s charging stations left other manufacturers in the... by rcxdude on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @06:51PM (#25935856)

Or people start paying tesla owners for charging.

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Re:Tesla’s charging stations left other manufacturers in the... by caf on Thursday January 28, 2021 @02:16AM (#25939110)

Tesla would probably be pretty unhappy if owners with free lifetime supercharging started reselling that free electricity.

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