It’s because the Polestar cars have a lot more electronic surveillance than the Volvo models, which have had only minor tweaks and have mostly not been updated for years.

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Terr_ 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

If it were just about electronic surveillance, a bunch of other cars/manufacturers would be getting impeded or at least get some sort of negative scrutiny.

https://www.mozillafoundation.org/en/privacynotincluded/cate...

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andsoitis 7 hours ago | parent [-]

None of those are Chinese-owned, as far as I can tell.

Polestar is predominantly Chinese-owned. Federal Connected Car Rules instituted a ban on the company selling cars in the United States.

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killingtime74 7 hours ago | parent [-]

All of them are Chinese owned. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geely. Geely, Polestar, Volvo, Zeekr, Smart, Lotus. All the same group

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caminante 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Did you mean to reply to a different comment?

I don't see any of those on the mozillafoundation page, per @andsoitis.

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		Oops, indeed

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IneffablePigeon 30 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Huh? Polestar and Volvo’s electric models share a very large part of their software stack, see [1]. I’ve seen forum posts talking about where the service centre accidentally loaded the Volvo software onto a Polestar. There is really quite a lot shared between the vehicles of these two companies.

[1] https://insideevs.com/news/774024/volvo-software-ex90-fixes/

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mukbangpervert 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Correction: it is because a major Republican donor wants Chinese cars banned, because they beat the living shit out of his offerings on quality and value.

It is silly to credulously pretend that the excuse about Chinese software has even a whiff of legitimacy.

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natch 6 hours ago | parent [-]

It's hard to parse this without concluding that you are perhaps unaware that Volvo is Chinese.

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		I should've said competitive Chinese EVs to be precise. (Though I thought that anybody as smart as you think you are would've inferred that without issue)
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		They need to balance between the Silicon Valley oligarchs desires and the MAGA voters possible reactions. Banning Volvo would probably not be well received by MAGA, at least Trump would need a bit more time to build the case that these vehicles are now unreliable.