UK may ban military personnel from using electric vehicles

The U.K. Ministry of Defence has banned electric vehicles (EVs) with Chinese components from sensitive sites and military training bases, Inews writes.

The ministry fears that the Chinese electronics in such vehicles could be used to collect intelligence, so staff working at the secretive military site at RAF Wyton in Cambridgeshire have been told they must park EVs made using Chinese technology at least two miles away from key buildings.

Last month, British military chiefs were ordered to stop having conversations in electric cars over fears their words can be recorded and transmitted by inbuilt microphones and accessed by Chinese manufacturers.

Meanwhile, Shadow Security Secretary, Alicia Kearns, said the U.K. “cannot sacrifice” national security in pursuit of environmentally friendly technology and urged the Government to make a “full pivot” away from electric vehicles across military and Parliament.