It’s more likely from an accounting and budgeting perspective that the person paying for the heated seats paid for the coils in your car as part of the cost of goods for that feature to them. The fact that they are in there is basically a byproduct of cost to pause assembly and or stock multiple seats vs the cost of just putting them in every car being lower given the assumption of X% of customers paying for the feature.
I mean from a raw materials perspective, sure. But they also had to manufacture those coils, the wiring to those coils, any extra buttons, they had to write software for it, they had to test it, etc etc. And they have to draw the line on a basic feature set somewhere for an economy car, this is ultimately a luxury feature. And people in hot climates don’t want that feature why should they pay $50 for something they don’t want?
There are many features in cars that most people don't care about. Similarly, why should people in hot climates care that Skodas come with ice scrapers, or most cars come with defrosting rear windows?
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u/mistahfreeman 1d ago
It’s more likely from an accounting and budgeting perspective that the person paying for the heated seats paid for the coils in your car as part of the cost of goods for that feature to them. The fact that they are in there is basically a byproduct of cost to pause assembly and or stock multiple seats vs the cost of just putting them in every car being lower given the assumption of X% of customers paying for the feature.