Sorry but no, it can.
ICE vehicles have hundreds of CAN bus or SPE -networked devices that feed into an MCU that can refuse to work if they're not first-party devices.
This isn't something novel to EV, at all.
ICE vehicles have hundreds of CAN bus or SPE -networked devices that feed into an MCU that can refuse to work if they're not first-party devices.
This isn't something novel to EV, at all.
It's no easier, or harder: There are components in both systems that rely on network communication which could easily be vendor-locked by a central computer.