Comment on BMW Is Giving Up on Heated Seat Subscriptions Because People Hated Them

• SirQuackTheDuck@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I mean, now with many cars being EVs, I’d rather have some computer in there to manage the battery, since I’m sitting on a bomb if that thing is mismanaged.

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  • Barack_Embalmer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What you’re describing is a Battery Management System (BMS), whose job is to monitor some key parameters of the cells and make sure they remain balanced. There’s no intrinsic reason for it to be tightly integrated into an overarching system that performs surveillance or other high-level functions in a “smart” vehicle. This video by Great Scott explains the basic principles and he even builds a simple one from scratch, that would be suitable for something like an e-bike www.youtube.com/watch?v=rT-1gvkFj60

    Sufficiently motivated people have been building highly performant DIY electric cars for several years with no Big Brother tech in the OpenInverter community openinverter.org/wiki/Main_Page

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      • AustralianSimon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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• redcalcium@lemmy.institute ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You’d be surprised. Euro7 regulation requires cars to be able to make emergency calls automatically on collision, so car makers use the opportunity to include 24/7 cellular connectivity into their new cars.

  europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/…/index_en.htm

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