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Kona EV Hacking

http://techno-fandom.org/~hobbit/cars/ev/
41•AnnikaL•4d ago

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sgt•1h ago
Recently bought a second hand BMW i3 - what a cool car! Not planning to 'hack' it but nice to read about ideas.
nubinetwork•1h ago
I've seen videos of that car... don't they only have like 40 miles of range, and the range extender only holds like 5 gallons of fuel?
mschild•1h ago
For the original version released in 2013, range was a bit of a concern.

Later models, 120ah full electric version, the range is about 250km. In comparison to newer cars, not a lot, but considering you can buy newish used ones for under 15k, its not a bad deal if it fits your needs.

zorg-is-real•1h ago
There is a way to make the Android Auto work wirelessly
physhster•47m ago
I think talking about "hacking" a car without a mention of OpenAI is not really hacking: https://comma.ai/vehicles#hyundai
PetitPrince•33m ago
Installing a non-standard button that hijack the light control of the car to light all of the rear one is not hacking ? https://techno-fandom.org/~hobbit/cars/ev/yb.html

I appreciate the autopilot effort of comma, but if this isn't hacking in the most classic sense of the word I don't know what is.

codeulike•36m ago
At some point later I got around to playing with DC fast charging ... That market still has a long way to go as far as sorting out its business model, as billing based on time vs energy is completely unfair ... An excuse that's offered less and less often is that pricing by kilowatt-hours delivered is prohibited in some states by utility regulatory rules.

I didn't know they were billing for DC charging in the US based on Time instead of kwh. Thats odd. In Europe its just kwh.

ranguna•21m ago
In Europe, sometimes it's just kWh, other times it's kWh and time. After charging is done, it's just time.
rcxdude•10m ago
Arguably it should be both. Sitting and occupying a DC fast charging booth, especially once you're not charging at the full rate, represents an opportunity cost since someone else could be using it.
hvb2•4m ago
> especially once you're not charging at the full rate

I don't think you want that as no car will be able to charge at 250kW for very long for example.

And I believe we're starting to see even higher peak charging rates. As always, there's no simple answers

bojan•2m ago
> In Europe its just kwh.

In the EU, yes. When you go to those dark corners of Europe that never achieved the membership, all bets are off.

In Montenegro and Serbia they charge per minute because the only entity allowed to sell kwh's is the national electricity company (in Serbia it's owned by Russia, so it is heavily legally protected).

spicySpy•35m ago
I really like both the e-Niro and the Kona EV for their "normal" car look and I did some hacking too. Wanted to play with the Web Bluetooth API and Svelte, so created the open source Niro Spy app (should work with your Kona too), works on iOS through BLE browser. It might be a good template for some OBD2 hacking, you can also check Open Vehicle Monitoring System repo and the evDash project.

The car is somewhat reliable on the battery side (still have SOH over 101% after 90k km / 50k miles), but the gearbox and motor bearings issue can be tricky to fix.

Also the MY2019 vehicles do lack remote climate controls and battery preconditioning (which I'm still trying to fix with the app).

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