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In California, Car Buyers Are Choosing Electricity Over Gasoline in Record Numbers::undefined

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[โ€“] [email protected] 56 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Are there any good dumb EVs? No internet features, no tracking, just an electric car I can get in and drive?

I constantly see features built in to the car but artificially locked behind a paywalls, like heated seats or even speed, software that tracks you or staff able to watch you through cameras.

I just want a car.

(Plenty of modern ICE are the same, I dislike them too)

[โ€“] beigegull 6 points 1 year ago

The Kia Niro is pretty close, although if you're really serious about making it dumb you'll need to pull the cellular modem. It doesn't depend on any internet services, but it does connect to the internet to get nearby charger data.

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