Australia used-EV public-source gate · 2026-08-17

Do not sell a model/year card until the official route can carry it.

A pre-payment acceptance gate for software-continuity evidence cards: exact manufacturer route first, explicit missing fields second, and no cross-model inference.

Today’s bounded result: the existing Polestar 2 — 2022 route remains accepted. Candidate MG ZS EV — 2022 and Nissan LEAF — MY2023 cards are on Hold; no second vehicle card was invented from generic, current or other-model pages. MG and Nissan are source owners, not customers, partners or endorsers.

3model/year routes screened

1accepted public sample

2Hold / no-card decisions

0VINs, payments or external contacts

Route decisions before paid work

Candidate	Decision	Evidence reason	Next safe action
AU-EV-R01 Polestar 2 — 2022	accepted_public_sample	Exact Australia-facing 2022 manual route exists; bounded missing fields can be stated without borrowing another model/year.	Keep the existing public sample; verify any real vehicle only through a separately authorised VIN/owner handover check.
AU-EV-R02 MG ZS EV — 2022 candidate	hold_no_card	Current Australian pages describe generic iSMART and ownership processes, but the reviewed sources do not map them to a 2022 MG ZS EV route or expose a bounded exact-route software/update record.	Require a current manufacturer-owned 2022 ZS EV manual/support locator and exact iSMART applicability evidence before accepting this route.
AU-EV-R03 Nissan LEAF — MY2023 candidate	hold_no_card	The official launch article identifies MY2023 LEAF, while the reviewed current connectivity page names QASHQAI MY25 onwards and MY26 X-TRAIL rather than LEAF. Cross-model compatibility was not inferred.	Require a manufacturer-owned Australian MY2023 LEAF manual/support route that establishes update, connectivity and used-owner fields before acceptance.

Ten deterministic acceptance rules

G01 · blocking

Exact route identity

Manufacturer-owned page names model and year/model-year route.

G02 · blocking

Official source minimum

At least two current/retrievable manufacturer-owned URLs for the exact route, unless one official manual hub supports all required fields.

G03 · required_field

Update evidence

Official release, bulletin, workshop or OTA route is identifiable; otherwise the field is explicitly missing.

G04 · blocking_for_service_claims

Connected-service applicability

App/service language is tied to the exact route; generic or other-model wording cannot be carried across.

G05 · required_field

Service term and charges

Complimentary period, subscription or unknown-charge state is recorded without promising continuity.

G06 · required_field

Network dependency

Technology/modem/network dependency is recorded or explicitly missing.

G07 · required_field

Used-owner handoff

Account, data and ownership-transfer route is exact-route evidence or explicitly missing.

G08 · blocking

VIN/hardware boundary

No hardware generation, installed version or working-state inference is made from public pages.

G09 · blocking

Support/security boundary

No fixed support end date or security-update term is claimed unless the source states it.

G10 · blocking

Commercial start gate

Written route list, accepted source coverage, scope, correction policy and cleared payment precede the delivery clock.

A fixed A$99 start gate

Free source triage

A$0

Submit five named Australian model/year routes and up to 20 manufacturer-owned URLs. Each route is labelled Accept, Hold or Reject/out of scope before payment.

Five-route evidence-card pilot

A$99

Starts only when five routes pass the written acceptance gate, scope/correction policy is accepted and payment clears. Target: two business days after the complete start gate.

If fewer than five routes pass: no five-route invoice or delivery clock; replace routes or stop.

Included: dated route cards, up to 20 official URLs, CSV, explicit missing/VIN-owner fields and one factual/source-link correction round. Excluded: diagnostics, account login, inspection, battery/mechanical/safety/roadworthiness assessment, recall/warranty/legal opinion, support-life forecast and valuation.

Request free five-route source triage

Captured official source register

PS-G01 · Polestar Australia · exact_model_year_update_route · HTTP 200 · source ↗
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MG-G01 · MG Motor Australia · current_generic_ismart_page · HTTP 200 · source ↗
bfd6e25c49b5b81023d48ea9a7130f6c403d8ff513a25edbce0b9e1b969a68ec
MG-G02 · MG Motor Australia · current_generic_change_of_ownership_page · HTTP 200 · source ↗
a80698c2b5b5639322951624d0d7b2f4da00a92864be1d5903ddb5db8da4c58c
MG-G03 · MG Motor Australia · current_owners_manuals_route · HTTP 200 · source ↗
a59da1c33bb4c5d7c5d861c468b82d3641ad4044e8fc022eb3fc2321f7afd774
NS-G01 · Nissan Australia · leaf_2023_model_year_launch_article · HTTP 200 · source ↗
b7923aeb85d4d625301cf31af887fb7efc4c171d325865b88cd1ab904024ac82
NS-G02 · Nissan Australia · current_connectivity_compatibility_page · HTTP 200 · source ↗
ef4cb0dcb57e95972ea5ae76192cddd566b43a589f526f193087cd70b21532a5
NS-G03 · Nissan Australia · current_pages_sitemap · HTTP 200 · source ↗
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A page being live does not establish exact-route applicability. The current MG iSMART page is generic and model/trim-dependent. The current Nissan connectivity page names QASHQAI MY25 onwards and MY26 X-TRAIL; it was not carried across to MY2023 LEAF. The Nissan launch article establishes the MY2023 route only, not software continuity.

Boundary: public-source research and workflow labelling only. `Hold` means the reviewed sources cannot support the proposed card without unsafe inference; it does not mean a vehicle lacks a feature, update or service. No manufacturer, dealer, fleet or publisher was contacted. No email, DM, social comment or contact form was sent.