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I sympathize with your comment. But doesn't this apply to ALL new vehicles? Can you help me understand how it's specific to electric vehicles?

• digisign 5y ago
  It's been worse with them because manufacturers decided early that electric cars would be wired with hundreds of sensors and connected to the internet to deliver them to the manufacturer and who-knows who else. Next, charging standards and stations decided that tracking your whereabouts was valuable as well. So when you plug in your car is identified, and matched with your financial and mobile phone details. All this was sold as under the guise of convenience because range anxiety was and is real. Less of a problem now with extended range e-vehicles, but they are not winding down the collection of valuable data of course. And yes, lots of this has spilled over into new gas vehicles, with the exception of the refueling angle. In comparison my current car is completely anonymous when I pay by cash.