Recent content by Ali

"Starting with the 2027 model year, NHTSA updated its New Car Assessment Program (NCAP) 5-star safety ratings to include Lane-Keeping Assist (LKA) and Blind Spot Intervention" so it may have all the hardware required for Comma after all.

Don't they have CCS chargers every 50 miles along both i-80 and i-90? Take a look in PlugShare.

I would make it more streamlined. That silly, blunt front made sense for air-breathing trucks of the past era, but makes zero sense today. I understand why Slate is doing it, plenty of folks think truck should look like something they are used to, but I do hope the next version will have better...

It accepts an arbitrary number as long as it is an integer and is less than the max amperage ChargePoint is capable of delivering.

As far as i know no Level 2 chargers can read state-of-charge data. Otherwise ChargePoint has decent integration to HomeAssistant. It is not local, so uses ChargePoint's cloud, but works great and costs nothing.

That's what i wanted to do too. Sign me up. I am more interested in the software side of the project, but I have some experience with the hardware as well. I was hoping to build a 360° camera and a parking guidance system.

"President Donald Trump says he had a "great meeting" with the heads of General Motors, Ford and racing team legend and businessman Roger Penske this week about legislation that, in the president's words, would prohibit people from repairing their own motor vehicles."

I’ve never owned a camper, so sorry if I sound stupid, but wouldn’t an inflatable camper make more sense? Something like those jump houses. Less weight, less volume when packed, more volume when expanded, less drag, less cost, no? Inflatables don't make sense on ICE cars, but EVs have tons of...

Chinese EVs are dominating the world and in many countries they wiped the floor with US and EU cars. And this includes all the parameters: safety, price, looks, features, reliability. Shielding big Detroit from competition is what got us in this situation.

I’m mainly looking for a fun vehicle or a car I can tinker with, so my second choice would be Aptera. If neither works out, I’ll go with Kia EV6.

That would be a fun project: an ESP32 that reads data from the CAN bus and GPS, connects to the home Wi-Fi network and pushes telemetry to Home Assistant. It could relay video from the reverse camera to an LED display, show vehicle stats on an e-ink screen, and control a 12 V power source for...

Perhaps they are being paid to sit 24/7 on slate forums and keep praising mavericks?

Those people who keep singing odes to Maverick and showing up on the Slate forum just to keep telling everyone that Maverick is somehow better than Slate, that it somehow competes with Slate, or that EVs are doomed because average-income people don’t own homes and therefore can’t charge them...

My 3D printer can't wait to start printing a new dashboard. I'll make my own entertainment system, will install comma.ai, will install 360 cameras and will train my very own backup autopilot.

The higher the backup camera is mounted, the less likely it is to get covered with mud. Besides, with a higher point of view, parking assistance software will have an easier time detecting obstacles. I am sure Slate is not working on this, but enthusiasts 100% will.