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by ungamedplayer 1899 days ago
What about improved battery tech, Weight distribution, Software updates, Safety equipment, internal computers, in car entertainment, in-wheel motors, drive-train connections to electronic towing, theft deterrence ?
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> What about improved battery tech?

We haven't seem much improvement on the market since second gen ternary hit. All coming improvements will be very gradual.

Cars on the market already hit possible upper/lower weight, and size limits for the battery pack.

> Weight distribution

Any other than low, and centre?

> Software updates

Do you want to play videogames on your car? Will you pay few thousand dollars more for a UI skin update once a year?

> in-wheel motors

May be, but that will only work towards killing the differentiation even more, at least in the low end.

Rather than debate each of these, you have agreed that there is a difference just nothing that you specifically care about.

> Will you pay few thousand dollars more for a UI skin update once a year?

What ? no.. I never said that these were paid updates, I said this was differentiator. Do you want security updates ? Or just to have the software abandoned once it ships.