A new study of 10,000 electric cars shows that their battery packs should outlast the vehicles themselves. Geotab, an automotive...
  • phoenixz@lemmy.ca
    25·
    19 hours ago

    I’ll buy an electric car when

    A) it won’t spy on me and

    B) I won’t have to sign away my soul and first born to whatever car company I’m buying from

    • SpacetimeMachine@lemmy.world
      271·
      18 hours ago

      I hate to break it to you, but nowadays neither of those are exclusive to electric cars. Just sounds like you might never be buying a new car again.

      • humorlessrepost@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        13 hours ago

        It’s still easy to disconnect the cellular antenna if you’re fine with losing features like self driving and map updates.

        • dirtbiker509@lemm.ee
          6·
          10 hours ago

          This. Shit doesn’t magically communicate with the company that made it. If they don’t want their data used, don’t connect it to wifi and disconnect the cellular antenna and pull the sim card 🤷‍♂️

    • Clocks@lemmy.ml
      51·
      18 hours ago

      Buy one from China, The only people spying on you then will have a miniscule impact on you, ever.