Mastodawn

Nissan have decided that vehicles older than 6 years old aren't worth their effort to maintain the remote services. 6 years. 🤢 And no route to open-source the service or pass on support to a third party. You aren't buying a car from Nissan, you're leasing it until they remove enough features that it becomes ewaste. https://hackaday.com/2026/04/08/nissan-shuts-down-nissanconnect-app-for-older-leaf-evs/ #enshittification #RightToRepair

Nissan Shuts Down NissanConnect App For Older Leaf EVs

Back in late February Nissan Leaf owners began to receive messages from Nissan informing them that the remote features in their cars would cease operation as the NissanConnect app would drop suppor…

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FlanFlinger

@jonoellis The car still functions as a car, you just lose remote access which can be replaced using open source hardware

https://www.openvehicles.com/buy

How does it become "e-waste"?

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Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK 4h ago

@FlanFlinger @jonoellis

VW did this with their VW Connect (or whatever its called) for older (petrol / diesel) vehicles such as my 2018 Golf GTI, because they'd made it dependent on 2/3G mobile internet rather than LTE.

Some things like traffic alerts and fuel prices disappear from navi screen because of this, but In this case its not a great issue as you can get better navi via Android Auto, and the other VW features weren't that much use and only helped feed VW HQ with data their main dealers could use for marketing purposes (and I either use indie garages or do my own servicing where possible)