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Parent can buy ours, which has had the GPRS modem removed by the dealer. I figured if they're turning the towers off, and Nissan would remove the radio for free
by mikestew 7y ago
Parent can buy ours, which has had the GPRS modem removed by the dealer. I figured if they're turning the towers off, and Nissan would remove the radio for free, might as well remove a threat surface. Point being, even if a first-gen Leaf still has the cell radio, there's nothing for it to connect to. AT&T turned all that off, and maybe Nissan quit listening even if AT&T left it on.
That, and CarWings was useless. It was quicker to walk out to the garage and turn the heat on than it was to use the app.
- LinuxBender 7y agoI still have some life left on my current vehicle, but I appreciate the extra information. I suspect most of the electric cars have some aspect of network connectivity.
- Gibbon1 7y agoMy two thoughts, it's not just electric cars that have tracking spying capability, it's most new models. Especially higher end ones. What I think is the number of new electric car models will increase dramatically in the next two years. At some point as battery prices drop EV's will hit price parity with gasoline/diesel cars. I'd expect you then see more bare bones cars, which are less likely to have tracking.