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> Mercedes-Benz is to offer an online subscription service in the US to make its electric cars speed up quicker.

> "Mercedes is asking you to pay for hardware it has already installed in the car - and which it presumably already made a profit margin on when you bought the car."Trying to leverage even more profit out of subscription services is a worrying trend and I hope there is a consumer backlash against it.

> The Acceleration Increase subscription is listed as "coming soon" on the US Mercedes storefront, with no exact date given for its release.

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