Cybersecurity of Smart Electric Vehicle Charging: A Power Grid Perspective
With the roll-out of electric vehicles (EVs), the automobile industry is transitioning away from conventional gasoline-fueled vehicles. As a result, the EV charging demand is continuously growing and to meet this growing demand, various types of electric vehicle charging stations (EVCSs) are being d...
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| author | Samrat Acharya Yury Dvorkin Hrvoje Pandzic Ramesh Karri |
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| description | With the roll-out of electric vehicles (EVs), the automobile industry is transitioning away from conventional gasoline-fueled vehicles. As a result, the EV charging demand is continuously growing and to meet this growing demand, various types of electric vehicle charging stations (EVCSs) are being deployed for commercial and residential use. This nexus of EVs, EVCSs, and power grids creates complex cyber-physical interdependencies that can be maliciously exploited to damage each of these components. This paper describes and analyzes cyber vulnerabilities that arise at this nexus and points to the current and emerging gaps in the security of the EV charging ecosystem. These vulnerabilities must be addressed as the number of EVs continue to grow worldwide and their impact on the power grid becomes more viable. The purpose of this paper is to list and characterize all backdoors that can be exploited to seriously harm either EV and EVCS equipments, or power grid, or both. The presented issues and challenges intend to ignite research efforts on cybersecurity of smart EV charging and enhancing power grid resiliency against such demand-side cyberattacks in general. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b783e75f33884dc5902c2382858ef2512022-12-21T22:49:22ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362020-01-01821443421445310.1109/ACCESS.2020.30410749272723Cybersecurity of Smart Electric Vehicle Charging: A Power Grid PerspectiveSamrat Acharya0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5747-8580Yury Dvorkin1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4426-7431Hrvoje Pandzic2https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4121-4702Ramesh Karri3https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7989-5617Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Center for Cybersecurity, New York University, Brooklyn, NY, USADepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Center for Urban Science and Progress, New York University, Brooklyn, NY, USAFaculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, CroatiaDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Center for Cybersecurity, New York University, Brooklyn, NY, USAWith the roll-out of electric vehicles (EVs), the automobile industry is transitioning away from conventional gasoline-fueled vehicles. As a result, the EV charging demand is continuously growing and to meet this growing demand, various types of electric vehicle charging stations (EVCSs) are being deployed for commercial and residential use. This nexus of EVs, EVCSs, and power grids creates complex cyber-physical interdependencies that can be maliciously exploited to damage each of these components. This paper describes and analyzes cyber vulnerabilities that arise at this nexus and points to the current and emerging gaps in the security of the EV charging ecosystem. These vulnerabilities must be addressed as the number of EVs continue to grow worldwide and their impact on the power grid becomes more viable. The purpose of this paper is to list and characterize all backdoors that can be exploited to seriously harm either EV and EVCS equipments, or power grid, or both. The presented issues and challenges intend to ignite research efforts on cybersecurity of smart EV charging and enhancing power grid resiliency against such demand-side cyberattacks in general.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9272723/Cybersecurityelectric vehicleselectric vehicle charging stationssmart grids |
| spellingShingle | Samrat Acharya Yury Dvorkin Hrvoje Pandzic Ramesh Karri Cybersecurity of Smart Electric Vehicle Charging: A Power Grid Perspective IEEE Access Cybersecurity electric vehicles electric vehicle charging stations smart grids |
| title | Cybersecurity of Smart Electric Vehicle Charging: A Power Grid Perspective |
| title_full | Cybersecurity of Smart Electric Vehicle Charging: A Power Grid Perspective |
| title_fullStr | Cybersecurity of Smart Electric Vehicle Charging: A Power Grid Perspective |
| title_full_unstemmed | Cybersecurity of Smart Electric Vehicle Charging: A Power Grid Perspective |
| title_short | Cybersecurity of Smart Electric Vehicle Charging: A Power Grid Perspective |
| title_sort | cybersecurity of smart electric vehicle charging a power grid perspective |
| topic | Cybersecurity electric vehicles electric vehicle charging stations smart grids |
| url | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9272723/ |
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