With all the media attention for the burgeoning EV market, it’s easy to miss that there is another revolution taking place at the same time. The two overlap and reinforce each other, but they are also clearly discrete as well. That other revolution is connected services, which turn your car into a customizable device like a computer. This shift in vehicle architecture could change the way we use our cars considerably – and fundamentally alter the way we view them…

Unsurprisingly, Tesla is the poster child of connected vehicles as well as electrification, showing how related these two areas are. Any Tesla owner will tell you that updates roll out on an almost weekly basis for their cars, bringing with them much more than just bug fixes. New online entertainment services arrive and new games, but also more performance, efficiency and safety features such as the blind spot camera added towards the end of 2021.