What a sad day to have eyes
Can a Heavily Modified Rivian Take the EV Cannonball Record?
Don't get your hopes up, it's only a first part but it's already very interesting.
Featuring a lot of dangerous thing that go zap!
I might be mistaken but I donāt think this contains the whole ready-to-deploy package, is it?
Downloading Nextcloud packages is extremely slowā¦
Hi fellow selfhosters,
Just wanted to know if any of you got the same issue: everytime thereās a new version of Nextcloud available (package version at https://download.nextcloud.com/server/releases/), itās EXTREMELY slow to download (70KiB/s or less) to the point that my automation just fails miserably to update my current install.
Am I alone here? Is there some kind of official mirrors Iām not aware of that can speed things up?
OK, no workaround un Win11.
But that's beside the point: what about un 3 months? 2 years?
Preventing their creation on newly installed computers. No workaround as of now.
Microsoft locking local users, Android preventing sideloadingā¦
As far as I know in France specifically, your installation must be done by a certified installer if and only if you want to take advantage of the tax credit for installing an EVSE at home.
Basically that would mean paying 1200ā¬ to have 600ā¬ back in tax credit. Better install it yourself for less than 300ā¬ and a big afternoon of work IMHO.
If you donāt call a certified installer, any electrician can do it and, as far as I know, no one can force you to have a certification for this. Same installation as an electric oven, so basically something pretty standard overall.
Regarding software/firmware updates, I honestly donāt know. Itās open, so I guess you could see if the security part is done properly (or touched at all for that matterā¦).
Curious about the automations? Linked to solar panels?
I connected mine to Home Assistant via MQTT but could find any meaningful use to it since.
And no safety regulation? No CE marking, no refuse to operate if the gnd line is not well established, no gracefully fail without degrading the safety?
Safety is builtin: https://openev.freshdesk.com/support/solutions/articles/6000113537-openevse-safety-features
There are some information about ground line. Iāve experienced it myself while my type 2 socket was malfunctioning: OpenEVSE cuts everything pretty quickly in case there is more than 150ohms on ground or more than 20mA leak to ground.
My brother is an electrician and helped me install it 4 years ago. Basically, as long as you have the right panel, there should be no issue.
Iām pretty it would be possible to control leds simply using OpenEVSE capabilities. Worst case scenario, a bit of MQTT should be enough.
AliExpress https://fr.aliexpress.com/item/1005008729849918.html
It's also apparently available at Amazon DE https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Charging-3-Phase-Wallbox-Station-Replacement-11-kW-16/dp/B0DB5XX6K3
Sorry I couldn't find it on an independent respectful online store
EU (French) user: 7.2kWh line (32A@230V), no particular regulation, this is a standard installation for oven in France. The only mandatory thing that comes to mind is: it has to be hardwired.
OpenEVSE doesnāt cost very much (I imported it back then for less than 250ā¬ total, including tarrifs). Doing the installation yourself saves you a lot of money too.
And finally, you are in control of your EVSE and can expose it to Internet or not, upgrade the firmware or not, etcā¦
Proud of myself: my new OpenEVSE installation
Background story: had an OpenEVSE since 2021. But it was hidden in the crawl space under the house since then. No attached cable, it was a Type 2 socket installation.
Recently got an issue with the aforementioned female Type 2 socket (no more ground, faulty lines, etcā¦) so I decided to move everything back into the sunshine.
Thatās not the prettiest installation, but itās working and the attached cable makes it way easier to use.
Next step would be to move it inside an old gas pump for decoration and laughs!
Depends on the country. In France, we have a relatively stable, performant and available charging infrastructure for DC or AC (with a lot of 22kW AC charger because of the Renault ZoƩ). In Belgium, Italy or Spain things are a lot sparser and difficult for EV owners.
EDIT: ChargeMaps seems to be a more European friendly alternative to PlugShare. In my own neighbourhood, I saw only 1 AC station on PlugShare, 3 DC station + a lot of AC station on ChargeMaps which reflects the reality more closely.
I had a very basic Renault ZoƩ (40kWh battery, 22kW AC charging) until today, so I feel the pain.
But on the bright side, itās very difficult to have to wait for a charger
That's generally what I think I would do. Just get to the next charger, exiting the highway of necessary.
I'm in Europe, I don't know if PlugShare makes sense where I am.
Have you ever waited to charge on a DCāÆCharger?
Hi everyone,
Iām a long time EVāÆdriver (first one being a Twizzy back in 2013) and I was wondering: have you ever waited to charge on DC fast charger on the highway for example?
One of my ev-skeptic colleagues told me I saw multiple lines of multiple EVs waiting to charge on the highway this summer. I never witnessed it or being through this myself and Iām more incline to think that this is grossly exaggerated but you never really knowā¦ so have you had such experience?
I'm not that tech savvy: what is the average Li-ion density?
And you forgot the good'ol laserdisc š°
That and one of the thing with rich people is that they hate losing money whatever happens.
So technically Melon could run Twitter at a loss for years but at one point, he will simply abandon it.