I hear you, but GPS trail snitching, constant OTA updates and car bricking because some cloud server somehere went down is a hard no. Apart from air conditioning I don’t need any extras. I bring my own navigation, and need no radio. I guess my next one will be a used car, unless I can find one without or disable onboard snitches.
As to 500 km, we drive 4000 km when on vacation, the charger network is thin enough so you have to plan your journey around it. Finding working gas stations within range is hard enough e.g. in rural France. Having to carry a dozen charging provider cards and manually picking the cheapest is for the birds. At work finding an underground parking with a charger is not easy. Lucky thing I telecommute and take public transport (which is barely working in Germany). There is perhaps some point having a small EV charged at home, but since I don’t commute it’s a needless luxury. Juice is some 0.3 EUR/kWh at home and looking at https://www.voltflow.net/blog/ev-charging-cost-germany-2026 EV is barely cheaper than a borderline efficient ICE.
I hear you, but GPS trail snitching, constant OTA updates and car bricking because some cloud server somehere went down is a hard no. Apart from air conditioning I don’t need any extras. I bring my own navigation, and need no radio. I guess my next one will be a used car, unless I can find one without or disable onboard snitches.
As to 500 km, we drive 4000 km when on vacation, the charger network is thin enough so you have to plan your journey around it. Finding working gas stations within range is hard enough e.g. in rural France. Having to carry a dozen charging provider cards and manually picking the cheapest is for the birds. At work finding an underground parking with a charger is not easy. Lucky thing I telecommute and take public transport (which is barely working in Germany). There is perhaps some point having a small EV charged at home, but since I don’t commute it’s a needless luxury. Juice is some 0.3 EUR/kWh at home and looking at https://www.voltflow.net/blog/ev-charging-cost-germany-2026 EV is barely cheaper than a borderline efficient ICE.
Fud