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Why does it have to be a startup? You can buy a dumb EV for under $30K today from GM. And yeah, it does sell pretty well. The vast, vast majority of EVs sold
by rootusrootus 4y ago
Why does it have to be a startup? You can buy a dumb EV for under $30K today from GM. And yeah, it does sell pretty well.
The vast, vast majority of EVs sold today are not forcing subscriptions of any kind on their customers. A couple minor carmakers are trying a new business model.
- mikestew 4y agoThe vast, vast majority of EVs sold today are not forcing subscriptions of any kind on their customers. It's funny that you mention GM, because guess what GM wants to do with EVs starting next model year? https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a43488135/gm-apple-carplay-discontinued-future-evs/ https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a43488135/gm-apple-carplay... (Last line of the article if you want to jump to the spoiler.)
- rootusrootus 4y agoWe can worry about that next year. I fully expect GM to walk back some of it's recent announcements based on strongly negative feedback from customers.
- mikestew 4y agoFair enough, let's not reverse-Osborne a company that, as you say, stands a good chance of walking back their announcements (despite having already lost a sale at our house). If GM is axing the Bolt, though, I hope they hold to their word at keeping the Equinox close to the same price point.
- vannevar 4y agoIt doesn't have to be a startup, no. But GM is discontinuing the Bolt, which I assume is the car you're referring to. And as far as I know, most EVs are evolving in the direction of more software complexity, not less. When I say a dumb EV, I'm talking analog knobs and buttons, no touch screen, no over-the-air updates. A disconnected vehicle.
- rootusrootus 4y agoYou're asking, then, for something that really no longer exists at all, and it is not an EV thing.
- vannevar 4y agoI'm asking for something that never existed---an EV that has the UX simplicity of ICE vehicles of the past.