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Originally Posted by Number 3
First, anyone who thinks EVs prohibit them from modifying or recalibrating their cars hasn't built a personal computer.
You will have hardware choices for upgrades and anyone that can recalibrate an ICE will learn to do it for EVs.
How do you guys think Tesla continues to add performance and range? Over the air programming to existing cars. It's just software so you too will have those choices. And just like adding hp in an ICE with a "tune" that trades off durability for HP you will have those choices with an EV.
Hardware? Once the volumes are there, you will be able to upgrade on every level from components to modules.
It will be exactly the same, just the parts you are changing, upgrading are different. But i expect you will be able to have choices to upgrade performance and range.
From a performance car standpoint, it's simply NVH and charging time. Those are the last frontiers and the noise can be faked as it is in many cars today.
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Originally Posted by BlaqWhole
I tried telling them all this months ago...
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What you guys don't seem to understand or too easily dismiss is that the software is also infinitely more capable in terms of enforcement, lockdown and centralized remote control, if only for "everyone's safety on the road" "to achieve zero fatalities".
Heck, even I can create an unbreakable platform that you'll need a currently nonexistent, billion dollar quantum computer to crack, so 3rd party modifications are easy to make technically impossible, and you bet they are/will be. For a glimpse at what is already here, just look at the T93 TCM that doesn't even have anything to do with EVs. The usual argument about not wanting to kill the aftermarket does not apply to EVs either, because there is no aftermarket.
Unless someone comes up with an open source car platform
and somehow achieves full industry penetration in terms of adoption
and somehow powers through all roadblocks to deploy these full right-to-repair, completely open vehicle architectures, non-OEM components will simply not be accepted, non-OEM software updates will be rejected, and that's the best case, because it's also trivial to disable features or the entire car when such modification is attempted (hello, Tesla superchargers).
In today's climate such a positive outcome (open source vehicles) is such a unicorn proposition I would not bet $1 on it, unfortunately. I hope, and will be more than happy to eat my words, that/if history proves me wrong.