Once upon a time, Norway got hyped-up on environmentalism, and E-buses. They wanted to go and make a massive buy of battery-powered buses. So they decided upon a Chinese brand....which had a lot technology built into the buses.
Contract was signed....800-plus bought, and delivered.
Buses are ultra modern....having GPS, maintenance alerts sent from the cloud, and a lot of data delivered to the Norwegian bus depot operations.
Then one day....someone asked....where was the data really? Well....NOT in Norway....it was in a cloud service operated by Amazon.....in Frankfurt, Germany.
Then the question came up....the bus company still having ultimate control over the buses? OH YEAH.
So the Norwegian guys tried to remove the SIM cards from the buses....thinking they could install their own SIMs. Well....nothing ran. They were geared to only run under the Chinese system.
Legal? Yeah....it appears that no one from Norway really grasped the technology involved or how it all worked.
What will likely happen? I believe they are mostly stuck....maybe the Chinese company will offer an upgrade....for tens of millions (that would resolve everything). But this started me thinking.....all these Chinese E-cars being sold in Germany. Are they in the same type situation?
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