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[–] 11 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I'm hoping that someone does some reverse engineering on the engine management computers of EVs. EVs internals are a lot simpler. An open source, drop in brain is definitely not unachievable.

All the advantages of an EV with none of the corporate tracking.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago

    Simple to do badly, but still challenging to do elegantly. Managing power/throttle response in every situation is quite complex if you want it to feel good. Kinda like how everyone makes a trackpad, but only Apple makes Apple trackpads.

    And thats before we get into the complications of thermal management with the batteries and heat pumps and stuff.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Do you mean for an ICE to EV conversion? You can already buy such kits.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    More a replacement brain for an EV. Compared to an ICE there is far less to manage in a hyper time critical manner. It's a lot more viable to design a drop in replacement. Particularly if the battery bank already has its own monitoring, that just reports upwards.

    You would end up with a modern EV, with many of the desired features. However, the manufacturer would no longer be able to reach in and extract data, either remotely, at a mechanic, or after an accident.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago

    You can also have that. The ice replacement kits bring everything, and very often use tesla or leaf batteries. If you already have a Tesla battery in your tesla, that much you can save. You lose all the fancy features, remote app management, sentry, etc, but that might be a pro for you...

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