RTPEV
Active Member
The MAC address of what? The vehicle's WiFi hotspot?What GM is doing with EVgo is Autocharge, not Plug & Charge.
You set up an EVgo account and save your vehicle's MAC address to your EVgo account and that's it.
Next time, EVgo would recognize your vehicle's MAC address and bill your EVgo account.
It would be great if there were an alternative way to authenticate to charging stations that wouldn't require specific hardware support for Plug & Charge for cars that don't have it, but it seems like relying on a MAC address alone seems pretty insecure.