Discussion

sgt: Recently bought a second hand BMW i3 - what a cool car! Not planning to 'hack' it but nice to read about ideas.

nubinetwork: 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: 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: There is a way to make the Android Auto work wirelessly

physhster: I think talking about "hacking" a car without a mention of OpenAI is not really hacking: https://comma.ai/vehicles#hyundai

formerly_proven: They’re also very slow and the AC makes you one of dem homos.

PetitPrince: 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.htmlI appreciate the autopilot effort of comma, but if this isn't hacking in the most 2000s sense of the word I don't know what is.

spicySpy: 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).