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YouTube’s Loaded With EV Disinformation::When it comes to articles on a website like CleanTechnica, there are two kinds of articles. First, there are the ... [continued]

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[–] cordlesslamp@lemmy.today 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

At an EV car showroom the other day, one of the big main focus function of the car that the salesman tried to pitch was "you can browse Amazon or do shopping online on the infotainment system". Also, you have to pay for a subscription to "unlock " the top speed and torque.

This is not the USA, so maybe it's just a thing in my country.

[–] TheDarksteel94@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

BMW is already doing the subscription thing for certain features. Mercedes too.

[–] meekah@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Afaik they pulled back on some of those

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago

Was it BMW because they're awful for that kind of thing. But then again you deserve it for buying a BMW don't you.

Not that this really has anything to do with electric cars the same thing could be pulled off with ICE vehicles. I don't actually mind my car having cameras and microphones but if my car is going to have cameras I want all the data stored locally unless I choose to upload it to some online location.