E.V.

Electirc Vehicles are our future. Doesn’t matter. There are lots of reasons for this.

What will be here

This section is being developed. Mostly it will be about issues and needs for regulations and standards in electronic vehicles.

Battery Management System - an example

One of the big costs in all EVs is batteries. A BMS can manage every individual cell. However, in my Prius, I can’t get access to that information. And although Telsla and Nissan users have hacked and made their own software to access the cells, this is a hard task. And as the number of vehicles and number of manufacturers is increasing, this is becoming more difficult.

It should just be completely standard on the ODB connector using standard and open code.

EVs are and shoudl be cheap to build and maintain

EV compoonents are a fraction of the number and a minute fraction of the complexity of any ICE.

Components are almost all easy to maintain yourself. There are always specialist areas on cars - specifically the steering and braking. The motor, electronics, air conditioner, heater, music, heated seats, auxilary, gps, main battery, motors, etc are all really easy to maintain.

However this is the issue - companies are making it hard. They are either making the batteries or motors or inverters locked in ways that can’t be managed personally. This is of course on purpose to require people to go back to the manufacturer for changes.

It is getting even worse - now we are getting features - e.g. heated seats or on bikes, heated grips, that require you to pay a fee to enable - they are already there, just turning on software.

Software is expensive to write. Someone writing a new high performance engine controller needs to be paid. Whether that is in the manufacturer or 3rd party, should be paid.

But charging a subscription fee for turning on heated grips - Say no to those manufacturers, we must stop them.