The Verizon subscription is for your car's onboard modem to act as mobile hotspot for your devices. This is separate from Bluelink and will not impact your car's usage. The Bluelink subscription is for the app features, SOS, collision detection, remote start, over-the-air updates etc.

You can still use all the regular Bluelink features tied to your account level (basic, advanced, and/or OTA/navigation) once the Verizon mobile hotspot expires.

 

I didn’t realize the Bluelink setup was only temporary. I just received a msg from Verizon that my in-car WiFi would be expiring soon. Can someGranted my EA experience may be unique.... still have not had a reply from
EA as to why.. believe its because I have enabled pug & charge and the behinder net does not play.one help to suggest a workaround? Will all communications btw my iPhone and the car stop if I don’t get the Verizon membership?

Keep Bluelink, meaning start a Verizon account, giving them your charge card, so wiil be billed monthly, just like for any mobile device. Its the basis for advanced features. Like continuous map updates, including charge station data. I would not consider optional.

 

This is incorrect. Bluelink and the Verizon data plan (hotspot) are completely separate features, each with their own data plan. ALL Bluelink features function without an active Verizon data plan (assuming you have an active Bluelink subscription and/or free-for-life from Hyundai). The Verizon data plan is for connecting your devices to the car's hotspot and using it for WiFi connections while on the go (surf the internet, play games, etc). Bluelink features work through the car's telematics connection with Hyundai to provide remote start, climate, GPS tracking, SOS, telemetry data, etc.

Continuous map updates is one of the tiers of Bluelink that will require a subscription when/if your free trial ends. Same with the Basic & Advanced tiers. You are perfectly fine with letting the Verizon data plan trial expire and still continue to use your Bluelink features. Almost every car manufacturer that offers these types of features all run off the same principal. If you want your device to have internet while on the move, you get the data plan from a communuications company (like Verizon or AT&T). If you only need the telemetrics features and remote start, climate, etc, you keep your subscription going with the car manufacturer.

 

AFAIK Bluelink expires 3 years after car purchase unless you extend, and has absolutely nothing to do with a Verizon plan. Mine expired 3 months ago and the car continues to run just fine. If you feel like you need app connectivity to remotely talk to your car, or want continuing OTA functionality, you need Bluelink.

I never used the app once for anything and was unable to get OTA for probably my first 18 months of ownership (since summer '22), so I'm just fine, thank you. I'm happy to go back to USB stick upgrades just as I did for those first 18 months, which I understand will continue to work. In fact, I think those might be safer anyway if you'd rather wait to hear about others' auto-OTA update misfortunes (i.e., broked1ck software patches) before explicitly initiating your own. I suppose OTA may be of considerably greater value to CCNC owners, i.e., '25 and onwards, with its expanded functionality re: drivetrain, etc., mods.