BMW heated seats subscription costs $18 per month in South Korea

Re:BMW heated seats subscription costs $18 per month in Sout... by dbetteridge on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @11:33AM (#32071429)

Chips I could understand as they're small and volume would be X times the number of cars produced.

But a heated seat is not light, its a lot of extra weight to ship and therefore more fuel used for every car.

What percentage of car owners will pay for that feature to be enabled. 20, 30 , 50?

That's a lot of fuel and energy burnt to get it to that person and over the life of the car the weight of those seats will have a material impact on the lifetime fuel usage of the car, tyre wear times etc etc.

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Re:BMW heated seats subscription costs $18 per month in Sout... by woobar on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @01:44PM (#32073384)

The seats are the same. The difference is a heating element that weights < 100 g

Here is example with packaged weights:

[1] https://bimmercat.com/bmw/en/search/selectCar/F30/Lim/BMW+33...

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Re:BMW heated seats subscription costs $18 per month in Sout... by dbetteridge on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @03:08PM (#32074373)

Cheers for the doc!

That's different from other cars I've seen with heated seats , in that case I can definitely see the case of just including it into every car just incase.

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