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Gel and lithium-ion tech could enable 1000-mile EV range on one charge
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this post was submitted on 10 Feb 2024
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I won't be buying a new car. ICE or EV. Specifically because my old car doesn't have a lot of the things that allow the car manufacturer to spy on me, and I won't upgrade to any of the nonsense. Right now I can fix pretty much everything in that car for less than the price of a new vehicle.
I've managed to somehow make friends with the owner of a local junkyard. Not quite sure how I did that it wasn't intentional but it's quite useful because I can get parts for my car that the manufacturer would want hundreds of pounds for otherwise.
In the future I bet they pull some apple style rubbish and start software locking components to individual vehicles so you can't just pull them off a donor car to fix yours
Better hope donor parts don't start getting used to by pass security features or this will happen in an instant
Seems unlikely. For one because donor parts like computers would have to be programmed (either by the manufacturer, or a mechanic with access to a scan tool that could do so), and so if you need a new ECU you're limited to those options or a third party service that will clone that computer. And two, most of the things I'd need to replace on that car that aren't computer related are easy to get second hand from a pick n pull, junk yard, or aftermarket and don't really have the kinds of electronics used to send and receive info to a car manufacturers servers. I'm not worried that my MAP sensor is gonna spy on me to BMW. I would worry if it were an ECU or a TCM or the like. The other thing is it would require upgrading the 3G chip in a lot of cars on the road to 4G or similar and or plugging a 4G device into the car somewhere like the OBD port which would be quite obvious in my car.