Interesting topic.
On cars, most all of the premium vehicles now made...have a cellphone ‘relationship’ with the car and data passes along. No cellphone? No data passing along. I expect that various ‘geeks’ will offer their services to cut the data transfer possibility, and the government will make this illegal in some way.
As for the smart-meter? Once you think about the increasing methods/ways that limited electricity will be produced, they are simply herding you to times of the day when you can run household items (freezers, washers, AC units). Adding to your burden is the E-car which has to be recharged.
Eventually, your smart-meter controllers will ask you about the type of washer/dryer, the model of your freezer unit, your E-car status, and out will come some ‘instruction’ to say that for 16 hours a day...you get limited ‘juice’ (enough to run a TV, laptop and refrigerator unit). You might have AC covered, but it’ll be at some 85-degree setting for the daytime. The smart-meter will then say you can only wash dishes or clothing after 9 PM, or charge-up your E-car.
When you start seeing washers/dryer/refrigerators with Wi-Fi connectivity....that’s the entry angle to this control. My son recently bought a washer unit which has a Wi-Fi control (it basically is prepared to be turned on, and he just sends a signal from his office to start, at a particular time).
The more ‘they’ know about you...the more control they can exert.
In 2018 I bought a new Toyota Camry, not a premium car. Toyota does the oil changes for the first 25,000 miles. I bought the car as my commuter vehicle so I put a LOT of miles on a vehicle, about three times the normal rate of most drivers which I think is about 12,000 miles a year. The first oil change should come at about the 10 month point logically since their oil change interval is 10,000 miles. Because I drive so much I hit 10,000 miles at about the 3 month point instead of 10 month. When my car hit about 8,000 miles, slightly after owning it two months, I started getting emails from Toyota telling me it was time to schedule my service. The car hadn't been anywhere near a Toyota dealership since I drove it off the lot but somehow they knew the car was approaching 10,000 miles. They couldn't have been going off of time because if I was an average driver I wouldn't need it for a least another six months, yet they knew. I don't have any kind of cell phone data plan for the car, it's just a basic Camry that doesn't even have satellite radio. I do use the bluetooth to connect my Iphone to the car so I can use the hands free talk feature.
The point of all this long winded post is that even without the premium avionics options, I think the new cars are designed to relay data back to the manufacturer somehow. I don't know if it's done using my cellphone when I connect it to the bluetooth or if it's got it's own cellular modem that's transmitting data. Perhaps it's bluetoothing data to some data collection receivers when you pass them on the highway, I don't know. I am pretty certain thought that newer cars are constantly downlinking data to the manufacturers which means the government has access to it also anytime they want it.
Correct, having reliable electric power 24/7, independent of weather conditions is a luxury they no longer want us to have as it means having energy storage facilities that are so large (and expensive) as to be unimaginable...so they need control our consumption.
By the way, if you ever wondered why Leftists have done a 180 degree flip and are now the biggest warmongers on the planet, it’s because their plans for this consumption-controlled New Electrical Order cannot work until Russia and China are brought into it, and neither country is particularly interested in doing that...hence it’s time for ‘regime change’ in those countries, and if it means World War 3 to get there, then so be it - at least from their viewpoint.