President Trump is moving to keep Chinese tech out of America’s electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure. But California’s Gov. Gavin Newsom is signing on to a network tied to Beijing. Someone should tell him.

The Trump administrationhas proposeda rule,open for commentsuntil March 16, requiring that federally-funded EV chargers be 100% made in America.

Sensible. Overdue. Good for workers, good for national security.

Days later, Newsom inked a deal with UK energy company Octopus Energy Generation,a partner of China’s PGC Power, to supply California with EV charging and billing technology. The system is calledElectroverse. It collects data on your credit card, your travel patterns, the type of car you drive.

As the Chinese celebrate the Year of the Fire Horse, Newsom is transforming his green agenda into a New Year’s intelligence gift exceeding the Chinese Communist Party’s wildest dreams.

Consider this: the Golden State hasover 200,000 charging ports, and 94% of residents live within 10 minutes of a charger. A Chinese-linked network will soon know where Californians go, when they go, and what they drive. That’s not a charging network. That’s a surveillance network.

This isn’t paranoia. It’s precedent. Israel famouslyused traffic camera datafrom Tehran to track and eliminate Iranian military leaders. The same class of data, including location, movement, and timing, is what Electroverse will harvest every time a California driver plugs in.

Imagine the CCP tracking a California National Guard commander’s commute, a defense contractor’s daily route to Edwards Air Force Base, or a Marine’s family near Fightertown USA in San Diego.

The 2021 Bipartisan Infrastructure Lawallocated $5 billion for EV chargers, but President Joe Biden had quietly watered down the Buy America requirements to just 55% domestic content. The new Trump rule closes that loophole and restores common sense.

And here’s what Sacramento refuses to acknowledge: American companies are already stepping up. A California-based company called Sparkz (on whose advisory board I serve) and its partners are already manufacturing fully domestic battery solutions for EV chargers. No Chinese supply chains. No foreign kill switches that can suddenly turn the grid dark.

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