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[–] dan@upvote.au 6 points 14 hours ago (6 children)

Is $879 for an extra 20 horsepower even worth it?

[–] kameecoding@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

For ice cars If you are outside warranty you can just have your ECU remapped and gain much more hp.

I am guessing these remaps will eventually be available for electric motors too

[–] dan@upvote.au 1 points 5 hours ago

I'm not sure about other EVs, but on the BMW iX, a lot of the computer stuff is encrypted now, and has to be signed with BMW's private key (i.e. they've actually implemented encryption correctly). Apps like Bimmercode don't work on it.

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