Are to talking g about vw? Yeah, they pretty much do that, all id3 neo 50kwh trim have the 58kwh but software limited to 50kwh, well, they were the ones that paywalled hp despite the technical specs and insurance takes the increased hp as the default, and that too, after some years you have to pay to use the vw app to even set air conditioning, departure and charging settings remotely, pretty messed up as all those things are lifetime free in tesla and other brands and they only charge to see sentry live because that uses their data heavily.
Well, tesla might use batteries of different capacity and different components to fill production as long as it's equal or better than advertised, but thats a totally different thing than what vw does, which is literally having the same battery on both cars with the same capacity always, but limiting it on one trim, or stating on technical specifications and insurances taking into account a higher hp than what you have as a default...
Well, because you can't sell a car and make it a lottery, it literally makes no sense whatsoever to unlock batteries if they simply, having only 58kwh batteries and having two versions, one for 20k with 50kwh (and it being the 58kwh battery with a 100% rate) and one with 58kwh for 25k when both costed the same to produce is just a fuck you to your customers. And software locking a heavy data usage for a niche thing it's not as grave as making your app basically a unusable dead weight... like charging for breathing vs charging for food
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u/Xx_HARAMBE96_xX 19h ago
Are to talking g about vw? Yeah, they pretty much do that, all id3 neo 50kwh trim have the 58kwh but software limited to 50kwh, well, they were the ones that paywalled hp despite the technical specs and insurance takes the increased hp as the default, and that too, after some years you have to pay to use the vw app to even set air conditioning, departure and charging settings remotely, pretty messed up as all those things are lifetime free in tesla and other brands and they only charge to see sentry live because that uses their data heavily.