This is why evs and newer cars will never work for me.
IMO: bring back AMC and make an actual analog electric car with none of the bullshit.
I don’t understand why i can’t go out right now and buy a brand new 1992 civic hatch (one of the best consumer cars made).
Fuck government laws.
I guess I’ll be turning to independent retrofit shops after my cars get too old to be reliable. I would bet more and more of those will pop up, like they did for semi truck engine retrofits.
Buy new semi, rip out that drive train, buy a crate drive train with no bullshit, slap it in. Then you have a brand new semi with all the shit removed.
I was reading an article about the Slate truck. Apparently the base model won’t have a mobile antenna in it and the reviewer considered it a negative ಠ_ಠ
Unfortunately, the Leaf doesn’t really know the SIM is removed, so it still asks me every month. But fortunately, now it doesn’t matter what I answer 🙂
are there any that can’t be bricked remotely by the manufacurer?
This is why evs and newer cars will never work for me.
IMO: bring back AMC and make an actual analog electric car with none of the bullshit.
I don’t understand why i can’t go out right now and buy a brand new 1992 civic hatch (one of the best consumer cars made).
Fuck government laws.
I guess I’ll be turning to independent retrofit shops after my cars get too old to be reliable. I would bet more and more of those will pop up, like they did for semi truck engine retrofits.
Buy new semi, rip out that drive train, buy a crate drive train with no bullshit, slap it in. Then you have a brand new semi with all the shit removed.
Especially after the 2027 laws.
I was reading an article about the Slate truck. Apparently the base model won’t have a mobile antenna in it and the reviewer considered it a negative ಠ_ಠ
I got under the dashboard and removed the SIM from my Leaf. Took a screwdriver and 15 minutes, but Youtube showed me the entire process.
It’s like removing the inhibitor chip from Rex.
To what end? Just to prevent the remote bricking? Does that mean you no longer have to decline their data collection requests every month or so?
Asking as someone who loves their Leaf but could love it more.
No, I wasn’t even thinking about remote bricking when I did it.
All of the car makers are making big money by selling your telematics data, so insurance companies can charge you more:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/11/technology/carmakers-driver-tracking-insurance.html
and then there is this:
https://www.newsweek.com/ice-buying-americans-location-data-under-scrutiny-11627381
Unfortunately, the Leaf doesn’t really know the SIM is removed, so it still asks me every month. But fortunately, now it doesn’t matter what I answer 🙂