System and method for authenticating electric vehicles using hardware-based identifiers

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for tangibly storing computer program instructions capable of being executed by a computer processor, the computer program instructions defining steps of:

• receiving, by a charging station, a connection request from an electric vehicle;
• requesting, by the charging station, a unique identifier from a NOR flash memory device in the electric vehicle;
• receiving, by the charging station, the unique identifier from the electric vehicle;
• transmitting, by the charging station, the unique identifier to a cloud service;
• receiving, by the charging station, an authorization response from the cloud service based on a verification of the unique identifier against a denylist database;
• and
• selectively enabling or disabling, by the charging station, charging power to the electric vehicle based on the authorization response.

A device comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• a storage medium for tangibly storing thereon program logic for execution by the processor, the program logic comprising steps for:
• receiving a connection request from an electric vehicle;
• requesting a unique identifier from a NOR flash memory device in the electric vehicle;
• receiving the unique identifier from the electric vehicle;
• transmitting the unique identifier to a cloud service;
• receiving an authorization response from the cloud service based on a verification of the unique identifier against a denylist database;
• and
• selectively enabling or disabling charging power to the electric vehicle based on the authorization response.