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Dutch students create modular electric car "you can repair yourself" (www.dezeen.com)

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cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/24122615

A team of students from the Eindhoven University of Technology has built a prototype electric car with a built-in toolbox and components that can be easily repaired or replaced without specialist knowledge.

The university's TU/ecomotive group, which focuses on developing concepts for future sustainable vehicles, describes its ARIA concept as "a modular electric city car that you can repair yourself".

ARIA, which stands for Anyone Repairs It Anywhere, is constructed using standardised components including a battery, body panels and internal electronic elements that can be easily removed and replaced if a fault occurs.

With assistance from an instruction manual and a diagnostics app that provides detailed information about the car's status, users should be able to carry out their own maintenance using only the tools in the car's built-in toolbox, the TU/ecomotive team claimed.

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[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I once had a car where you couldn't change a frickin' lightbulb without dismantling half the motor. Nowadays "repair yourself" really has a very low bar.

[–] jqubed@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

The driver’s side lightbulb on my wife’s Kia Soul is largely blocked by internal components. I found some instructions explaining how to remove the front bumper for access. Fortunately some guy on YouTube made a video showing a better way. Need to make some marks on parts so you can line them up properly when putting it back but with some tight contortions it was possible and only took a couple minutes.

[–] JillyB@beehaw.org 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

A lot of modern car headlights are LED which you shouldn't need to change like old bulbs. At least not often.

[–] burble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

But if you do, it's $100+ instead of $10

[–] JillyB@beehaw.org 1 points 1 day ago

Yeah it's a whole assembly instead of just a bulb. Interior lighting is mostly like that too now. Ceiling fans and whatnot have assemblies rather than bulbs now. That said I have never had one of these that needs replacing. When I was a kid, replacing a lightbulb was a regular task. I think car lighting going this direction is probably fine as long as it's not crazy expensive and requiring a dealer computer to connect to the ECU.