The reality that every other automaker is backtracking its EV plans? • Volvo backs off all EV goal by 2030 • Toyota cuts 2026 EV output by 1/3 • GM cuts EV production by 50k in North America • Ford cuts EV spending + delays/cancels some EV’s • Honda + GM cancel plan to co-develop EV’s • Mercedes cancels goal of all EV’s by 2030 • BMW cancels battery contract + announces hydrogen projects

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It's still up to the manufacturers to adhere to the access method Tesla specified, to date I think GM and German brands are having issues getting their software integrated. I have seen some new Chevy blazers able to use NACS to CCS1 adapter and it work, while others don't.

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They should fuckin pray to allah cuz even  Jesus ain't saving them ... Intel has been taking Ls for years now, from a failed graphics card stunt to fucking bricked CPUs to permanently compromised CPUs to a disaster PR stunt in the middle east, they're becoming the new GM, shit, state subsidized, and playing the "patriotism" card for people who don't give a shit and won't be fooled... It belongs in the garbage can of history.

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Damn. Giants GM is sweating rn watching Barkley

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Tesla completely changed the EV forever, so there’s no way you can simply write them off like that just because you don’t like some UI features. Ford, GM and others wouldn’t know what to do with Tesla’s tech if they had bought it early on. Jeep has always made solid and iconic vehicles but those are the only two American brands I can vouch for. I drive unreliable British luxury vehicles so I have little room to talk

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I don't think much of Tesla. I think they're a tech company and they're always going to suffer because they had the wrong business plan. They should have been selling their tech and getting in bed with other manufacturers. Rather than making themselves essential, they've made themselves the underdog competition and that's dumb as shit. Now they've been out there for over a decade selling overpriced, glorified kit cars, and the actual presentation of their tech is, IMO, astonishingly bad. Every time I'm in one, I see something and think 'oh, look at that cool thing it can do...but ewww, why does it do it like that?' Jeep is part of chrysler/fiat. They are a joke, as is GM/Daewoo (I'm not even sure if they're still associated at this point, but since GM cars are like 90% the same sub-hyundai Korean shitboxes anymore, I'ma call them as such). If you want a good car, buy Japanese. If you want the most reliable, buy Toyota. Buy German if you like the cars and don't plan to own it out of warranty. Also you should probably be loaded. I guess if you're loaded enough, you can own an out of warranty German car, but you're fucking loaded so you're not gonna do that. Buy US if you're dumb and want to throw your money down a toilet. Or, I mean, if you want a truck. I think the tundra is the last real Japanese truck left and the Americans are largely fine enough.

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GM has been doing this for years, ever since introducing OnStar with GPS. Insurance carriers get all the details on driving habits linked to VINs. They recently got called out for it, and to a lesser degree a couple other automakers. They claim they have stopped, but I’m refusing to believe that….

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So far it’s still one of two brands I’ve had the least issues with, the other being Toyota. GM previously held this title for me many years ago.

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You car already does this too (assuming its 2016ish or newer). GM recently got caught selling driver data to LexisNexis and Verisk who were selling it to insurance companies who were using it to justify raising rates. I requested my report from LexisNexis and they had 80+ pages of data on a car I had only owned for a few months. Mozilla rated cars as the worst consumer category they have ever tested for data security/privacy: [It’s Official: Cars Are Terrible at Privacy and Security (mozilla.org)](https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/articles/its-official-cars-are-the-worst-product-category-we-have-ever-reviewed-for-privacy/) Long story short; learn how to block or pull the fuse on the cell and GPS antennas in your car. Its really the only way to drive a newer car with any data privacy. As for phones, you can get a privacy focused phones that don't do this. Never use an android phone with google services. Never use google maps. Use privacy focused browsers. You can drastically limit how much of your data is taken for free with a few simple steps.

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This will become standard in most if not all cars at some point. Companies already sell your telemetry data to auto insurance companies, and they use that data to set your rates.  GM/Chevy got clipped for this, and supposedly stopped doing it, but other car manufacturers still do.  https://www.edmunds.com/car-news/gm-killed-program-that-sold-driving-data-to-insurance-companies.html

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