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Sandy Munro pegged the redundant buttons on the 2022 Bolt EV at $15 a car. At Ford, adding a single part number reportedly runs $75,000. Ferrari's CEO has said touchscreen buttons cost about half what physical ones do.
The thread's rebuttal: good touchscreen software is anything but cheap.
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VW didn't just drop GrapheneOS support — it shut its API to anything not certified by Google Play, killing the community integrations people used to schedule charging and preheating.
The detail that stung most in the thread came from a reader pointing out that none of this needs to touch a server: your own charging data should be readable locally from the car. Several would-be buyers said they cancelled orders over it — one mid-purchase.
