Charging users for features they have already paid for when purchasing their vehicles is an increasingly common practice for automakers. After BMW started charging for heated seats, Mercedes Benz is another company that started offering upgrades to their cars on a subscription basis, and owners had to pay extra to be able to use the full power of the engine their electric vehicles.

Mercedes-Benz subscription to improve your vehicles

On its official US website, the German automaker revealed that it is testing subscription options for model owners. ECO as well as EQS Through the subscription page, vehicle owners will be able to subscribe for $100 per month.

As indicated ArenaEVthis performance improvement will depend on each vehicle, with models Mercedes-Benz EKV 350 as well as EKV SUV improve your performance by about 21%, having increased from 288 hp. up to 349 hp At the same time, cars reduce the acceleration time from 0 to 96 km / h in almost a second.

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Payment for a subscription to models EQS 450 as well as SUV EQS 450 they will also get a huge upgrade to their engine. O ArenaEV wondering how an automaker manages to increase the power of its vehicles while allegedly operating the vehicle above the 65-70% limit that remains to guarantee durability, or is already selling its vehicles with reduced power to be able to charge more in the future?

Signatures are increasingly found in cars

It is worth emphasizing that this practice is becoming more common among traditional assemblers such as Volkswagen Toyota Audi cadillac porsche as well as bmwand new ones like Tesla, offering different types of subscriptions. The purported reason for this practice is that profits from car sales are shrinking and companies are preparing to find other ways to raise more money.

The current example given by the portal is General Motors, which has already made about $2 billion in car feature subscriptions alone last year. But grandmaster it is just starting to offer training and plans to make $25 billion a year by the end of the decade.

However, adding payment barriers for certain features seems without reducing the cost of cars Analyst Sam Abuelsamid of Guidehouse Insights recently told The Verge that average car prices are approaching $48,000, one of the highest in the United States.

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Source: ArenaEV