YPSILANTI TWP.–The American Center for Mobility, VicOne, and Block Harbor have entered a Memorandum of Understanding to offer security services around EV charging as part of ACM’s mission to enable safe, sustainable, and secure mobility technologies.
The security of EV charging infrastructure is a growing area of focus for ensuring a trustworthy end-to-end consumer charging experience. This partnership aligns the expertise available through VicOne and Block Harbor to ACM’s growing ecosystem in EV charging.
ACM opened its EV Charging Basecamp in 2024 with an initial focus on improving interoperability between electric vehicles and chargers to enable a more reliable, seamless charging experience. EV charging stations can also be vulnerable to cybersecurity attacks resulting in theft of personal data, damage, or disruptions to infrastructure.
VicOne offers cybersecurity for EV manufacturers and charge point operators, providing both agent-based and agentless solutions. Its platform enables continuous risk monitoring, real-time vulnerability discovery, zero-day threat intelligence, intrusion detection, and virtual patching—ensuring protection even before vendor fixes are available. Aligned with the NIST IR 8473 guidelines, VicOne’s system strengthens the four essential cybersecurity pillars: identification, detection, protection, and response—helping secure the entire EV charging lifecycle.
Block Harbor joined this partnership to extend its hands-on cybersecurity validation work from in-vehicle systems to the EV charging infrastructure that supports them. By participating in ACM’s EV Charging Basecamp and working alongside VicOne, Block Harbor is helping ensure that EVSE manufacturers and charge point operators can proactively identify vulnerabilities, meet emerging regulatory requirements, and build consumer trust.
Services will include an initial free vulnerability assessment for qualified companies. Interested parties should direct inquiries to the American Center for Mobility at info@acmwillowrun.org
ACM offers a development center to transform the way industries advance safe, sustainable, and secure mobility technologies. Located in Southeast Michigan on over 500 acres at the historic Willow Run site in Ypsilanti. ACM offers:
* an Advanced Mobility Proving Ground with test environments featuring specialized infrastructure, equipment, facilities and resources;
* An innovation and technology campus with an industrial tech park for the co-location of mobility companies;
* Event and demonstration areas for showcasing mobility technologies and convening industry activities.
ACM is open to private industry, start-ups, government, standards bodies, and academia.
More about Japan-based VicOne at www.vicone.com. More about Detroit-based Block Harbor at https://www.blockharbor.io/.
More about ACM at www.acmwillowrun.org.