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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by WreckingBANG@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

I want to buy a new car, but it needs to be privacy friendly. Sadly you cannot really buy any new Car that is.

Has anybody any experience on making your modern car not phone home to its company, by removing the hardware it uses to do?

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[-] Reality_Suit@lemmy.one 3 points 9 months ago

I have thought about something like that. Maybe getting an early model EV and maintaining it. I love the idea of electric vehicles, but they've just always been expensive. Cost is also the reason I have never bought a new vehicle in my life as well.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

I don't think there is such a thing as a non-connected early-model EV, aside from really niche stuff that was mostly leased to fleets, like the 1998-2002 Ford Ranger EV or the 1997-2003 Toyota Rav4 EV. Good luck finding one of those, though, and also good luck getting reasonable modern-EV-equivalent range out of the lead acid or NiMH batteries.

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