Modularity costs money and they’d rather you pay for a whole new car, especially modern smart cars that have subscriptions to use hardware in the car you paid for (e.g. heated seats).
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gian@lemmy.grys.it 4 months agoTrue, but maybe not physically possible. I doubt that the 2G module is a separate piece of hardware
tabular@lemmy.world 4 months ago
gian@lemmy.grys.it 4 months ago
What you say about the subscription model is true, but I don’t think this is the case. They simply went with the network that at the time had the biggest area covered, which would probably was 2G. (and it seems that they also used more recent modems in later models)
They simply, correctly, decide that having the widest area possible covered now is better than to have to maybe shutdown some services at a not yet known future time.
tabular@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I don’t know what you mean.
abhibeckert@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I guarantee it’s a separate piece of hardware. The leaf is sold all over the world and needs different hardware to work on all the different radio frequencies. There would be at least four or five different cell radio modules for the leaf.
gian@lemmy.grys.it 4 months ago
Well, I said maybe is not physically possible, not that this is the cause.
But still, even being a separate piece of hardware does not make automatically possible to change it with a newer one.