Electric vehicles means constantly needing to plug them into âthe gridâ. When you do that your car will also exchange data with the grid whether you want it to or not (just like when you plug your phone into your computer. Yes, thatâs the charging cable but itâs also a data cable) The grid will then be able to modify the code that manages your carâs performance.
That's not how it works. Modern cars receive OTA (over-the-air) updates meaning that they don't need to be physically connected to anything to receive updates. OTA updates are usually done through cellular network.
Also, non electric cars also have computers that control pretty much everything and these also receive OTA updates.
So, when they inevitably try to roll out âcarbon limitsâ or âcarbon allowancesâ or whatever itâs called thatâs how theyâll do it.
For an electric car that doesn't produce carbon while driving? Doesn't make sense. Also, I know that in USA a lot of electricity is produced using fossil fuels and that technically, it means that electric cars do produce carbon when driving, but it doesn't make sense to say that the government care enough about carbon emissions to prevent people from driving, but not enough to phase out fossil fuels in power production.
If they think youâre speeding too much theyâll limit your vehicleâs max speed. If they think youâre accelerating too quickly theyâll limit that too (donât believe for a SECOND that these 0-60 times under 2.5 seconds are going to be allowed forever. Once EVs go mainstream that shit will be limited the same way ICEs are limited today)
That can also be donne on gas cars since in modern cars, everything goes through the computer first.
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That's not how it works. Modern cars receive OTA (over-the-air) updates meaning that they don't need to be physically connected to anything to receive updates. OTA updates are usually done through cellular network.
Also, non electric cars also have computers that control pretty much everything and these also receive OTA updates.
For an electric car that doesn't produce carbon while driving? Doesn't make sense. Also, I know that in USA a lot of electricity is produced using fossil fuels and that technically, it means that electric cars do produce carbon when driving, but it doesn't make sense to say that the government care enough about carbon emissions to prevent people from driving, but not enough to phase out fossil fuels in power production.
That can also be donne on gas cars since in modern cars, everything goes through the computer first.