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Originally Posted by LogicalApex

It shifts the car platform to align with the current technological realities. Always on so the device can more adapt to the user. This is a trend that’s been under way already in cars as a bolt on to ICE. Secondary batteries and high drain battery technologies like AGM to allow cars to stay on long after they’ve been shut off. EVs make this an easier reality as the standby draw on EVs is minimal.

I'd get your point if you were talking about Hybrids. Those have been around a long time though. Ditching ICE component doesn't advance anything, and introduces it's own liabilities.

I guess I don't see what user functions the user needs the car to adapt to that requires EV, and can't be served by ICE or hybrid.

A smart phone sucks to use as a laptop, and if it's made bigger to make that part work better, it then sucks to use as a phone.

For instance, I live in upstate NY and although it is illegal in NY you see countless cars running early in the morning to warm up and take the bite off our cold winter mornings. An EV can handle this easily without running an ICE engine in the worst possible conditions for it (very cold and idling). A connected EV can even potentially anticipate this automatically and known to warm up right around the time I always go to my car and leave. So I can just go about my morning without thinking about the car and managing it too.

And it uses what energy to do this magical feat? I can control the environment of my ICE car with my hand held display remote from 900' away. No EV magic required. Many newer cars can do this with their cell phone.

Also, if it's that cold, the battery range has already been greatly reduced due to cold battery syndrome. Seems like a step backwards in user experience.

Another thing you get up here is power outages thanks to things like ice storms (we’ve been told by our power company to be prepared for such an outage as a storm currently moves through). You could add expensive generators to your house and have to either manage fuel for them or pay hefty for a natural gas one… Or you could add an EV with V2H capabilities to the home (with a V2H charger) and you now have a generator available with the car and it isn’t something you have to “maintain” separately or fuel separately. Have it always on and in the future the car could potentially be used to balance grid demand to reduce power outages in the summer when power draw spikes.

You can put an inverter in an ICE car too.