Ulrich O.RE: https://hachyderm.io/@soviut/116144223905120508
Gotta love this add. Am going to use it in class!
@pluralistic
Bård H. (lvl 49 🇳🇴)On a sidenote...
Bought a seven year old Nissan Leaf 40kw just before Xmas
Now Nissan tells me they don't care enough about their existing customers to let the mobile app continue to work for these cars, so we will no longer be able to pre heat the car before driving
So much for trusting a company...
Guess I will never buy a Nissan again
Colin Warren@baardhaveland @obucate @pluralistic To be fair, as an original owner of a 2017 Leaf, this is because the hardware in the car is a 3G cellular modem. Which no longer can connect as the Telcos have turned off the antennas. And are no longer listening…
Jean-Baptiste "JBQ" Quéru@cvwarren @baardhaveland @obucate @pluralistic It was totally predictable in 2017 that 3G wasn't going to last long. 1G had been gone for a long time, 2G was in the process of being shut down, and frequencies were already being auctioned for 5G. It was already an issue that those cars didn't ship with 4G, and a bigger issue that they couldn't be upgraded. Having only hard-wired 3G in 2017 is gross short-sightedness on Nissan's side, that wouldn't even outlast the battery warranty.
Some details:
- 4g opened in Norway in 2009.
- The car was made in 2018.
- 3g died in 2021, four years ago (predicted, as you mentioned)
- The app is currently working for another month.
This means either Nissan decided to flip off the car owners so they could kill the existing systems and nuke the 4g network operation cost.
OR the cars are running on what's left of the 2g network. (Which I would claim to be fraud for any 2018 car...)
@baardhaveland Apparently they were still making 3G-only cars as late as last year. Dang.
So much for trust...