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Why Americans aren’t buying more EVs (arstechnica.com)
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[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

It’s an industry wide problem for sure. Whatever politician takes that up will get huge votes.

My EV is likely one of the worst offenders l, but they’re all offenders

When I looked into similar for my 1996 Pontiac, it was already a concern, and it’s gotten much worse

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago

I looked into it a bit, and it looks like Chevy's OnStar should be easy to remove (just a circuit board behind the dash). It's ridiculous that I need to go through this though, I should be able to just turn it off and it would be off...