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I own an eight years old electric vehicle. It’s not connected to the internet anymore, and it is fine. The maintenance is done by professionals. Sometimes they
by speedgoose 5y ago
I own an eight years old electric vehicle. It’s not connected to the internet anymore, and it is fine. The maintenance is done by professionals. Sometimes they do software updates.
I also own a new electric vehicle connected to the internet that updates itself once in a while. I know various non-official garages in my area that can fix it when it’s out of warranty. I guess if I remove the modem, it will simply stop updating automatically, and I will lose a few features like the smartphone app, like my other car.
- 0ldskool 5y agoCan you say which vehicle you drive? electric vehicles platforms are very different from each other
- speedgoose 5y agoSure. The old one is a first gen BMW i3. But some coworkers, friends, and family have cars from the same time, Renault Zoé, Nissan Leaf, Volkswagen egolf, or Mitsubishi I-miev and it’s similar. Most of these are not connected. The new one is a Tesla model y.