[Nathanba]

I actually think that the design is something people could get behind. People are painting and coating it with various cool color schemes, some of them look great. The problem is that the car itself just doesn't seem good enough and has far too many quality issues and problems. The windshield wiper itself is like a flagpole for all that is wrong with that car. Of course - who knows, I'm only repeating things I saw on social media in this case. In a german reddit post I saw about Tesla cars I read that Teslas are supposedly actually fairly good quality by now ... compared to the even worse german EVs which simply declare your car's software obsolete after 3 years and never update it again.

[dashundchen]

A counterpoint as someone who owns a Volkswagen EV, I'm absolutely fine with my car not updating and changing every few months.

I bought it knowing the features it had at the time, I don't need the icons rearranged in a yearly UI redesign, or the adaptive cruise control algorithm changing from one week to the next, or needing to fork out for some subscription every month. If there's a bug or two? I will have the car for years, it's something I'll figure out.

It's a tool to get from A to B, not another IoT gadget I want to have to worry about updating and babying all the time.

[floren]

Hey, my model year 21 German EV is still getting updates... mainly because they keep having recalls which get fixed in software.