• Buffalox@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    There are no benefits. You could simply unplug at 80%.

    You misunderstand, having a larger battery that is not used to full capacity makes it last longer. If you unplug at 80%, you need to have paid the extra price for the bigger battery, if the battery size was actual physical battery.

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      6 months ago

      There is no “larger battery”. It’s an identical battery with different software limitations on the charge level.

      No consumer benefits from artificial limitations being imposed on them like this. It exists solely to extract more money from consumers. The fact people are defending this blows my mind.

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        6 months ago

        No consumer benefits from artificial limitations being imposed

        No we agree on that, but when the market is so they can charge more, you still benefit getting the car cheaper with 80 Watt than an extra production line with a 70 watt battery. I agree it feels like cheating.

        The fact people are defending this blows my mind.

        I’m not defending the practice, but you are arguing from a false assumption that the company would choose yo sell at the discounted price, instead of only having the full version at full price in this kind of cases.

        If the choice is between making a model with an actual smaller battery that cost the same to make, the customer is actually better off getting the bigger battery without being able to use it 100%

        There is no such advantage in the BMW example. Which was kind of the point.