(photo credit: EnergyVision).
Charging scams, victims of EnergyVision customers – Anti-Tesla vandals back in action – Battery factories: Stellantis invests in Spain / Flash week.
Top-up scams: 300 euros stolen from those who paid with QR code
Massive fraud against customers of the Belgian charging station network EnergyVision, which offers the possibility to pay with debit or credit card. It appeared upon payment a fake page to fill in, once completed (by entering all the data with the QR code) the writing appears on the screen ‘Mistake’. The customer was then redirected to the right page, with which he completed the operation correctly. But without realizing that, with the first screen, 300 euros had been deducted from his account. “This way it wasn’t immediately obvious that you had been robbed“, has explained Maarten Michielssens, CEO of EnergyVision. “We have forwarded the addresses of the charging stations to the police. Hopefully they will be able to see from the surveillance cameras who carried out the scam. Fortunately, only 5% of our customers pay via QR codemost use recharge cards. But we are still talking about a hundred people who lost 300 euros each“.
Charging scams and… Anti-Tesla vandals are back in action
They return to action i anti-Tesla vandals, haters of the most prominent brand of the electric revolution. They have struck in the past Also in Italyabove all in Milan. Now they are back in action in the USA, pressing hard dozens of Cybertrucks in a Ford Lauderdale parking lot, in Florida. The writings on the sides of Tesla pick-ups directly target Tesla’s owner, Elon Musk, with phrases without the need for translation such as “Fuck Elon“. According to the American site Electrekthe vehicles were parked waiting for an intervention from the company due to a problem with the motor that drives the windshield wiper. It is not clear whether these are easily removable writings or whether the intervention will be more expensive. There are currently no comments from either Tesla or the local police, but it is assumed that there was an area of this kind manned by cameras.
Stellantis Batteries: the focus is still on Spain, Italy…
The Spanish government’s excellent relations with Stellantis seem to give much better fruit compared to the wall against wall we are witnessing in Italy. With us everything is at a standstill (see the postponement of Termol Gigafactorythe). The new battery assembly plant that will supply all the batteries is also coming into full operation in Madrid Citroën C4 and C4 electric, produced right in the Iberian capital. We are in Villaverde, less than 10km from Puerta del Sol, the heart of Madrid. Citroën explains that the construction of this plant was necessary for the increase in demand of the two Citroëns. The annual production capacity is 50,000 batteries, but we are working towards better logistics and efficiency and being able to adapt to any increases in demand. The batteries produced in Villaverde are composed of 17 modules lithium ion, managed by an electronic control unit (BMU). Each battery has a capacity of 54 kWh and it weighs 340kg.
