A team of students from the Eindhoven University of Technology has built a prototype electric car with a built-in toolbox and components that can be easily repaired or replaced without specialist knowledge.
The university’s TU/ecomotive group, which focuses on developing concepts for future sustainable vehicles, describes its ARIA concept as “a modular electric city car that you can repair yourself”.
ARIA, which stands for Anyone Repairs It Anywhere, is constructed using standardised components including a battery, body panels and internal electronic elements that can be easily removed and replaced if a fault occurs.
With assistance from an instruction manual and a diagnostics app that provides detailed information about the car’s status, users should be able to carry out their own maintenance using only the tools in the car’s built-in toolbox, the TU/ecomotive team claimed.
“We want to show the automotive industry that sustainable and practical design really is achievable”
Funny to think they don’t know already. But sustainable isn’t the goal, maximising profits is.
this looks super-cool! I hope they’re able to interest some auto-makers into making an actual product.
Stop it. I can’t breathe!
I want one!
Two please!
This reminds me of a guy that used a portion of the energy generated by his car’s alternator to generate hydrogen and oxygen and feed it into the air intake, achieving over 100mpg efficiency in a stock vehicle.
He died mysteriously shortly after that.
Edit:
https://tcct.com/news/2020/11/the-mysterious-death-of-stanley-meyer-and-his-water-powered-car/
Well, it’s physically impossible to capture more energy from burning hydrogen and oxygen than it takes to separate it. Combustion engines are only something like 30-40% efficient in ideal operating conditions.
Building a repairable car on the other hand is very much possible.
I was hoping it would be more obvious what I was getting at, but apparently the flu is hitting me harder than I thought.
I’m suggesting that the existing Automobile industry will not welcome their efforts.
I hope they succeed.
That sounds like a free energy device, which is not possible.
Hydrogen has a round trip efficiency of 30% when used in a fuel cell, and closer to 10% when burned in a combustion engine. The energy taken from the alternator will always be much more than the extra energy provided by burning the hydrogen.
Many people have made wild claims about fuel efficiency or free energy devices. If they were true, it would be easy for anyone to replicate the results.
I choose to believe he was murdered by big oil because it’s more convincing than that it is not actually a free energy device.
I know the whole story and I have picked my side. 😁
“I choose to believe the factually incorrect thing” I’m hoping this is a joke but it’s hard to tell on the internet
Half joking. The design worked by electrolyzinh water and intaking the resultant gasses into the air intake, also it was with a dune buggy, also water vapor alone improves ICE efficiency, so it’s not that unreasonable that he’d get 100mpg.
Also, the petrochemical industry would totally murder over something like that.
It did not literally run on water. That was just marketing.
I wonder if the source for the OS/firmware would be available
Most of the cars today do not have a single OS. They consist of up to 100 independent Control units, each with their own software.
I imagine that to open source that all, there’d be a lot of wheels to reinvent
still a car, tho
aaaaand scrapped.
Instructable or it didn’t happen! /s
I wonderif its street legal.
Look at the frame under the hood. 100% not safe for impact.
Everyone has to start somewhere. This is a pretty cool proof of concept.
I’m not yum-yucking, just stating what I see, it looks like an impact would be quite fatal.
It is very cool. I hope they succeed. I understand their odds though.
