Electric Cars Will Have Fewer Gadgets. Here’s Why
What high-tech feature would you want to see in your car (that’s not there now)? Autobytel.com asked that question as part of its “What’s Hot Now?” report, and the results indicate that people must get lost a lot-30 percent, by far the largest number, would like to have an in-dash GPS navigation device. Me, I can live without one.
In fact, just as cars are connecting big time, we’re electrifying them, and many of the early EVs will be kind of skimpy on personal tech, trying to increase battery life and increase range.
In the old days, the advertised list price of an entry-level car got you a really bare-bones vehicle with a “blanking plate” where the radio would have been. In England, even the heater was optional, which makes no sense in a country with perpetual “pissing down rain.” But now everybody wants cars loaded (try to find one without air conditioning) and CD players and iPod Connectivity are nearly standard. And that’s why it’s interesting that the second-most popular choice in the survey (24 percent) was “I can live without technology.”
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