Fears over dependency on Chinese technology have reached an unlikely corner of the West: the previously serene and efficient world of Scandinavian public transportation. European nations have become ...

European transport authorities are concerned after a Norwegian operator discovered a security vulnerability in Chinese-made Yutong electric buses, which could allow for the remote shutdown of the ...

An electric bus operated by Movia in Copenhagen, Denmark. Nearly 70 percent of the city’s buses are made by Chinese companies. Yet these security and dependency concerns have so far done little to ...

Several European countries are investigating whether Chinese-made electric buses could be remotely deactivated, amid growing national security concerns over China-built infrastructure across the ...

This photo provided by Ruter AS show a Yutong bus, owned by Norwegian public transport operator, Ruter, during a test of the vehicle's communication system on Aug. 14, 2025, in Sandvika, Norway.

Norway’s public transport system thought it was buying clean, quiet Chinese electric buses. Instead, it stumbled into a live test of how vulnerable modern vehicles are when their most critical systems ...

This summer, Oslo’s public-transport authority drove a Chinese electric bus deep into a decommissioned mine inside a nearby mountain to answer a question: Could it be hacked? Isolated by rock from ...

OSLO, Norway — A leading Norwegian public transport operator has said it will introduce stricter security requirements and step up anti-hacking measures after a test on new Chinese-made electric buses ...