pdxmotorhead
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- First Name
- Dave
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- Portland OR
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- Tesla Y, Chevy Bolt, 1994 Jeep WranglerV8 swapped) , 2003 911/C4 cabriolet.
If slate gives some access to the vehicles control bus, a small Arduino project could easily provide a "dash" for the standard stuff, use the blue tooth in it to connect to a tablet for fancier entertainment/nav etc features..
If slate chose to give a open source map f the communications (they don't have to release all of it)
There are some cool potential options out there..
One of the things I hate about our Bolt is that GM does not provide any real ongoing support for the car, instead of the 12 bucks to have internet on my tesla per month, GM only gives the telemetry if you subscribe to Onstar, for roughly triple the cost or more depending on features.. They have not done a update to the entertainment setup since about 2019. So no remote start, no checking on charge levels, none of the basic stuff you'd want on a EV. Out of the 5 GM dealers near me only 1 has a couple of real techs that can work on them and get anything done "while you wait"..
If slate chose to give a open source map f the communications (they don't have to release all of it)
There are some cool potential options out there..
One of the things I hate about our Bolt is that GM does not provide any real ongoing support for the car, instead of the 12 bucks to have internet on my tesla per month, GM only gives the telemetry if you subscribe to Onstar, for roughly triple the cost or more depending on features.. They have not done a update to the entertainment setup since about 2019. So no remote start, no checking on charge levels, none of the basic stuff you'd want on a EV. Out of the 5 GM dealers near me only 1 has a couple of real techs that can work on them and get anything done "while you wait"..
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