Would be great to read about it but my residential internet has apparently been blocked for "malicious activity".
Carice TC2 – A non-digital electric car
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#12Lovin' this! Though I'm not a fan of the design but like the spirit of it. I can't fathom why we can't have a modern car with analog displays and switches in the cockpit. I own a 25 years old car which only has a digital radio (removeable!) and that's it, perfectly enough.
No fuel injection or electronic ignition? I'm sure there's an ECU somewhere in the vehicle.
Not features found in the cockpit, unless you are not going to space today.
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#13Would be great to read about it but my residential internet has apparently been blocked for "malicious activity".
This is dangerously disruptive content.
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#14Would be great to read about it but my residential internet has apparently been blocked for "malicious activity".
Residential internets are now proxies for AI scrapers.
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#15This is nice! not a big fan of the design and would really prefer a fixed roof but the concept is still a good one and the avoidance of all the digital doodads is great!
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#16Lovin' this! Though I'm not a fan of the design but like the spirit of it. I can't fathom why we can't have a modern car with analog displays and switches in the cockpit. I own a 25 years old car which only has a digital radio (removeable!) and that's it, perfectly enough.
No fuel injection or electronic ignition? I'm sure there's an ECU somewhere in the vehicle.
This is the sentiment completely.
My 34-year old base spec Chevrolet has digital controls for timing advance, fuel trim, and integrated Engine and Transmission Control Units. But my dash has some analog components ( fuel level is variable voltage instead of PWM ). The mechanics would all say that my truck is very simple, and "old school"
The Lay use of 'analog' is far removed from function. As long as there isn't a screen, it isn't seen to be digital. I studied photography in college and loved shooting film. I have a processing machine that is based on a 6502. When people would talk about non-digital things as analog it would bug me (One is chemical, and one is a computer).
Re: Carice TC2 – A non-digital electric car
#17Lovin' this! Though I'm not a fan of the design but like the spirit of it. I can't fathom why we can't have a modern car with analog displays and switches in the cockpit. I own a 25 years old car which only has a digital radio (removeable!) and that's it, perfectly enough.
Look at the Bugatti Tourbillon. About as analog-appearing as it gets. Clearly there’s a recognition that this is what luxury looks like — but switches (let alone dials!) cost more than touch screens.
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#18Oh, yet another luxury EV. Wake me up when a manufacturer finally commits to making an EV that everyone can afford and isn't a cloud-connected privacy nightmare.
Don’t know the cost here but I would fathom it’s not “cloud connected”
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#19Would be great to read about it but my residential internet has apparently been blocked for "malicious activity".
From the pictures, this is the kind of vehicle that you would gladly pay extra to have delivered to your second vacation home so you can park it next to your 6 other semi-exotic cars and drive it half a mile to the country club on Saturdays.
If that is not your demographic, they might have geo-located your IP and blocked you based on the median income of your area. (Only half joking.)
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#20Analog in what sense? No digital readouts? It has a standard EV charge port, so it's definitely got computers in it somewhere to negotiate charging at a minimum.
The post's title was editorialized: the archived page makes no mention of analog. The neutral title would be "The 100% electric Carice TC2: a real retro head-turner". I think OP meant there were no screens in the sparse cockpit, just some analog gauges. And yeah electric cars need a battery management computer, a charge controller, and a motor controller at least.
Out of curiosity, are those components standardized/swappable between manufacturers/models, or customized for each individual make/model?
So much of "old school" auto maintenance was having a relatively standardized size/fit for similar components.