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Re:Tesla remotely converts battery pack, cutting 1/3 of range by vkk8 on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @03:56PM (#32243149)
> Sounds like all around bad decisions. The previous owner shouldn't have sold it as a 90 or at least disclosed that, "It's a 60 but Tesla swapped out the batter with a 90 and left it configured as a 90".

To be fair, for people not intimately familiar with the craziness of modern tech business, it's reasonable to assume that whatever capabilities the car has at the moment of purchase, are going to be there indefinitely. On the face of it, cutting car battery remotely via software patch sounds about as reasonable as remotely removing a room from a house you purchased.

Re:Tesla remotely converts battery pack, cutting 1/3 of range by simondotau on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @06:26PM (#32244882)
Imagine you purchased a home and it wasn’t disclosed that the shed out the back was actually on your neighbor’s land.
Re:Tesla remotely converts battery pack, cutting 1/3 of range by account42 on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @07:34AM (#32249242)
Even that doesn't let the neighbour just bulldoze the shed when you are using it without involving the legal system.