EVs are now 9 times cheaper than petrol or diesel to drive in the UK

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1429718/evs-are-now-9-times-cheaper-than-petrol-or-diesel-to-drive-in-the-uk

www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-evs-are-now-nine-times-cheaper-than-petrol-or-diesel-to-drive-in-the-uk

That’s all fine, but I’m still not gonna drive one. Nothing connected to the internet will make it to my driveway.

Aren’t those two separate issues?

Sadly, they’re not. Every single EV is a privacy nightmare.

I’d love a dumb EV, but there is none.

www.slate.auto/en

Slate is still going to be constantly connected to the internet, feeding data back to Slate…

And it’s backed by Jeff fucking Bezos lol. Yes, it will be a nice little bare bones vehicle, but that’s irrelevant to the brain and network of the thing.

There might be less data to collect, but they’re still going to be collecting and sharing data.