Electric Cars Are Already Upending America
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After years of promise, a massive shift is under way.

Electric Cars Are Already Upending America | After years of promise, a massive shift is under way::After years of promise, a massive shift is under way.

  • AnneBonny@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    11 months ago

    In the EV age, cars are no longer just cars. They are computers.

    oh no

    Stripping out a gas engine, transmission, and 100-plus moving parts turns a vehicle into something more digital than analog—sort of like how typing on an iPhone keyboard is different than on my clackety old Samsung flip phone.

    stop

    “It’s the software that is really the heart of an EV,” DeGraff said—it runs the motors, calculates how many miles are left on a charge, optimizes the brakes, and much more.

    stop, please

    Just like with other gadgets that bug you about software updates, all of this firmware can be updated over Wi-Fi while a car charges overnight.

    noooooooooooooooo

    • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      11 months ago

      “It’s the software that is really the heart of an EV,” DeGraff said—it runs the motors, calculates how many miles are left on a charge, optimizes the brakes, and much more.

      Its all the worst parts of owning an EV.

      Seriously, give me a mostly-dumb EV and I’m happy as a clam. The best parts of an EV are not the software (those are some of the worst).