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@PawelK @hackernews@die-partei.social @lupyuen RISC-V is gaining ground like a Russian winter paired with a relentless Red Army.

@PawelK @yukiame Ukraine sounds like a good place.

@PawelK @yukiame If you wanted to start a company making ECUs just slap "For off road use only." on the box and in the instructions for getting away from that nonsense. There is a market for such things.

@PawelK @yukiame Outsource to Belarus or Maldoba for immunity?

@PawelK @yukiame The most difficult part would be getting the replacement to pass regulations. The rest of the system would be rather easy to implement.
Something like a Throttle Body Fuel Injection system would be easy to retrofit to older vehicles. There's the Holly EFI system that does this for around $5,000.

@PawelK @yukiame Perhaps it could be but auto makers have already claimed it as intellectual property and implemented DRM. That sounds like a job for a complete replacement to me.

@PawelK @yukiame There are a few open source and open hardware projects that could be used on older vehicles. The newer modules found in vehicles are interconnected and require tens of thousands of dollars in equipment to change keys or properly read the data codes.

@PawelK @yukiame It had good fuel economy too. I do have training as an Automotive Technician and I've worked on heavy equipment for most of my life. The electronics used on board modern vehicles are what I despise most. I would be very open to replacing the black boxes with something open source and open hardware.

@a_breakin_glass @tk Fuel cells are still not feasible for nearly any application on earth. The only fuel cell that I know of that worked well was a hydrogen fuel cell that NASA used in space.

@PawelK @yukiame Ah yes, the venerable Yugo. They were popular in the US for a period of time.

@PawelK @yukiame They seem like good cars.

@tk A rotary engine can be used to save space and weight. They can be pretty efficient as long as the seals are in good condition.

@tk Any purely electric vehicle will have a very limited range. The use of highly efficient internal combustion engines as generators makes it feasible. The efficiency would be high because it would be optimized to only run at the optimal output.

@tk Motorcycles are better suited for being electric vehicles. They're just going to need a different name as there is no cycle involved.

@freemo A wise man once told me that it's all pink on the inside.

Listening to Voodoo Ray always ignites something inside me.

@solarchemist There's UTC.

@nvk When Socialism meets Marxism.

@catsnkittens@botsin.space Spooky, as in the gunships used in Vietnam. Rule the night.