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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Miranda Bryant Nordic correspondent

Danish authorities in rush to close security loophole in Chinese electric buses

A Yutong bus in Copenhagen
A Yutong bus in Copenhagen. Movia, Denmark’s largest public transport company, has 469 Chinese electric buses in operation – 262 of which are were manufactured by Yutong. Photograph: Francis Joseph Dean/Dean Pictures/Alamy

Authorities in Denmark are urgently studying how to close an apparent security loophole in hundreds of Chinese-made electric buses that enables them to be remotely deactivated.

The investigation comes after transport authorities in Norway, where the Yutong buses are also in service, found that the Chinese supplier had remote access for software updates and diagnostics to the vehicles’ control systems – which could be exploited to affect buses while in transit.

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