Mein Auto wird zum Ziegelstein: Elektrofahrzeuge werden bald altern wie Smartphones.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/10/electric-car-software-updates-tesla/684643/
Mein Auto wird zum Ziegelstein: Elektrofahrzeuge werden bald altern wie Smartphones.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/10/electric-car-software-updates-tesla/684643/
13 Kommentare
think you forgot the link, lol.
but i feel ya. my EV is becoming an audio advertisement mobile over time, because, of course they are.
>Cars used to be entirely mechanical objects. With hard work and expertise, basically any old vehicle could be restored and operated.
>Things have changed. My Model 3 has few dials or buttons; nearly every feature is routed through the giant central touch screen. It’s not just Tesla: Many new cars—and especially electric cars—are now stuffed with software, receiving over-the-air updates to fix bugs, tweak performance, or add new functionality.
>In other words, your car is a lot like an iPhone (so much so that in the auto industry, describing EVs as “smartphones on wheels” has become a go-to cliché.) This has plenty of advantages—the improved navigation, the fart noises—but it also means that your car may become worse because the software is outdated, not because the parts break.
>Even top-of-the-line phones are destined to become obsolete—still able to perform the basic functions like phone calls and texts, but stuck with an old operating system and failing apps. The same struggle is now coming for cars.
It’s by design. Planned obsolescence. I’m not sure even the EU has adequate protections on this front (though they would be one of the first).
Regardless of the clear bias of the article, I am still keeping my petrol car and will continue to do so until someone releases a „proper“ EV.
And by proper I mean, I just want to grab a Mazda 3, a Corolla, a Ford Focus, a Renault Clio, and just put electric engines on it.
No need for massive touchscreen, display gauges, bunch of features and shit. Just the same old air conditioner dials and buttons, same interior, with a small display for navigation, maybe some HUD like Mazda does, but with an electric engine, regenerative braking and battery.
Give me a shitbox EV.
Why would the software in a car get worse over time? Sure the manufacturer will eventually stop updating older models, but it will still drive just fine and do everything it always did on that last version of the software.
Tesla still updates its oldest models that are dating back 15 years at this point. That’s starting to approach the typical max lifespan of a car anyway.
If anything, it’s older, non-electric vehicles that are affected by this problem since they CANT be updated over the air. I have a 12 year old Honda Accord with Bluetooth that barely works anymore due to changes in the Bluetooth spec, and a buggy infotainment system that sometimes gets stuck on an audio source or displays the side repeater camera as a blank screen until you turn the car off and on again. That could be fixed with a software update … but those aren’t a thing. Meanwhile, my Model 3 gets bug fixes pushed all the time, and entirely new features added occasionally.
Basically, I don’t see why the article pushes this as an “EV” problem. Cars of all types have had software for decades at this point, and it’s entirely up to the manufacturer to either update that software or not. The type of energy the car runs on is irrelevant.
don’t worry the likelihood of battery failure with repairs costing more than the car is worth will probably end your EV before lack of updates will.
Plus at end of life for the software, theyre security risks..I guess they already are now with over air hacking, but probably moreso then.
I’m running a 1ltr 30 year old Micra. Doubt any of today’s EVs will be running in even half that time.
This is the article in question guys: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/10/electric-car-software-updates-tesla/684643/
Mi first EV is now almost 12 years old, it hast lost maybe 10% of the range but it works great.
My second, our current main car, is almost 5, and feels like new, couldn’t be happier with it.
Either of the have requieres any maintenance other than basic air filters and a change of tyres every 40-50k km.
I would never go back to a combustion car
Phones receive new apps. They are parted of ecosystem.
Cars, mostly don’t. Maybe they could become incompatible with the latest Spotify app, they will still however be fully functional.
My Tesla, witout software updates is still a great car. I can perfectly survive without the latest Tron update or even a little change of how the steering wheel buttons work.
My girlfriend’s i3 is as good as new after almost ten years. Every ICE car I’ve owned (except a base model Peugeot Expert van with no frills) had problems constantly at that age.
My friend has a Tesla model 3 that he got 5 years ago, I still think it’s a pretty cool and new feel car, but he’s complaining constantly that his software is slow, the screen freezes every now and again and it gets confused and closes apps randomly, he’s talking already about how he might need to get a new one soon because the softwares getting too laggy. Was a wild concept to me considering I’m currently looking to buy a car from 2010.