Buying an Electric Vehicle - Lemmy.world
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> work in a software company from India > bought an ev 2 wheeler > the company provided statistics about the distance travelled, efficiency, range, all in different driving modes > felt happy to know all these > company discontinued sending all the statistics, stopped web login by saying all details would be available on the phone app > 3 months got over, but no new features available on the phone app > try to snoop what’s happening on their app > found the api key and url from the app log. > MF, they track 20+ parameters for each trip including the number of times the horn is pressed > why the horn count? What are they going to get by tracking it? 🤔 > all the EVs are privacy nightmares.
    • @jabjoe@feddit.ukEnglish
      9•9 months ago

      In the end, that what we want. Open Source everything. Then everything can be repaired and learnt from.

    • @krnpnk@feddit.de
      4•9 months ago

      When regulators make this reasonable. A lot of OEMs are interested in FOSS, but liability makes it hard - especially for safety critical domains.

    • @Catsrules@lemmy.ml
      4•9 months ago

      Sure it is happening to all vehicles, however with an ICE vehicle I have the option to buy an older pre Internet connect vehicle.

      EVs really only became a thing 10ish years ago. There just isn’t a lot of them around to pick from, basically all have some anti privacy features.

    • Oliver Lowe
      1•9 months ago

      But seldom in the motorbike space, I think?

      • Possibly linuxEnglish
        6•9 months ago

        You will have to modify a older car with electric components. Its not for the faint of heart.

        • @jabjoe@feddit.ukEnglish
          2•9 months ago

          To be honest, you don’t get a good or cheap EV out of that. Low kWh per mile and short range.

          • @ErwinLottemann@feddit.de
            4•9 months ago

            there are companies that offer this. i think (at least in germany) it helps, that the structure of the car is kept intact, but there are probably still a lot of things the TÜV would like to check. i don’t think it’s easy (here) for a single person that does this once.

          • @jabjoe@feddit.ukEnglish
            1•9 months ago

            Of course. People been modding/building ICE vehicles forever. ICE are more dangerous.

    • @OminousOrange@lemmy.ca
      1•9 months ago

      I was actually quite interested in something like this in high school in the late 2000s. There were a few DIY EVs that existed that were just ICE vehicles with anything ICE taken out, an electric motor put in the engine’s place, and several 12v batteries connected in series.

      Of course, they’re pretty crude compared to those we have today, but it’s very possible.