In most U.S. zip codes, electric vehicles are cost-competitive with their gas-powered counterparts, according to a new study. And regarding emissions benefits of EVs, individual driving patterns matter as much as regional factors like the local electricity mix.
As well as government remote disable and always-on corporate tracking!!!1!1
Until I can kit my 1991 Accord with a wholly owned conversion I will not be touching one, nor any other car built later than 2010.
That’s new cars, not just EVs
Hence why I said no car made past 2010… Its in the comment.
It took me all of about 20 minutes to remove the SIM chip from my 2015 Leaf, following a youtube video that showed everything step by step.
AFAIK, all cars before 2021 still have physical SIM chips, so easy to remove and disable the telematics.
Even if you can’t remove a SIM (as in a case of an eSIM), simply disconnecting the mobile cellular antennas and grounding them would likely prevent it ever from connecting to a network.
You can just disable connectivity on a KIA from the settings menu.
Well sure, my Leaf has that also. But that assumes a level of trust that it actually fully disables everything and doesn’t have “exceptions”, and that it won’t get re-enabled during service or battery changeout or something else like that.
My early gen 9 civic is a year or two newer than that, but I think its the last model year it DID NOT have a sim.
I clearly do not have good reading comprehension
Understandable
You may be able to. I saw this the other day; really cool project: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8pY5Ntd/
'82 Toyota pickup conversion, BTW.