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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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[–] ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It depends on where the variable for this is stored.

In ram then a reboot will fix it. But it looks like for some reason the engineer put it on non volatile memory.

[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There's some complex mechanical interlocks involved in charging circuitry too. You can hear these beefy solenoids clunk on/off when plugging in a charging cable. A stuck solenoid could be implicated too, as some safety detection circuitry might check those to see if the car is currently in a charging configuration. That goes especially since moving parts are typically more likely to fail before anything else. Although, I'd be stunned if that wasn't already considered.

[–] artyom@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago

Not solenoids, contactors technically.