Electric buses from the Chinese company Yutong could be remotely disabled via remote control capabilities found in the bus software, diagnostics module, and battery and power control systems.
Operators of the chinese bus can pull the SIM card and reinsert it as desired as mentioned in the article, I’m not sure there is a meaningful difference if that is how the Iveco works.
Does Iveco(41%) or any other manufacturer with a meaningful market share do that?
https://www.iveco.com/global/Press/PressReleases/2021/IVECO-Over-the-Air-Update-the-smart-timesaving-way-to-update-vehicle-software
The language used here suggests to me that the user initiates the update, but that’s as far as I can guess.
Operators of the chinese bus can pull the SIM card and reinsert it as desired as mentioned in the article, I’m not sure there is a meaningful difference if that is how the Iveco works.