Or maybe the Blazer wasn’t breaking so much as charging in a highly degraded mode because it didn’t like the charger’s output?
Give something 1,000 Amps and if it needs only 5mA, it'll only pull 5mA unless something is bad wrong in its power handling
Edmunds seem to have had a similarly catastrophic time with their long term review purchase.
Im currently in the process of selling my Tesla (“non legacy manufacturer”) back under lemon law because of constant hardware and software issues like windows intermittently refusing to roll up (despite 6+ service center visits), windshield wipers not working, random alerts about “faults” they allegedly can’t locate in their logs, getting alerts on my phone that windows are left open when they’re not, lane departure warnings when the setting is turned off and i am not departing a lane, loud popping noises on speakers followed by infotainment “crashes”, etc.
Are you implying that car manufacturers are window shopping for off-the-shelf software to run the core embedded logic of their complicated and highly specialized electric motor vehicles? And there is such a plethora of OTS offerings they can go with the lowest bidder?
You're talking about Microsoft Office 365, right ?
Software for your car (except Tesla early models) is written by SW engineers (not coders), under strict quality requirements, with very big time pressure. And it is tested. And it is an item on the BOM because, if it does not work, it is not released.
Some of the details that got out about what happened at Rivian:
Problem cause #1: to push an update, you had to cut and paste various version numbers together onto a command line. Someone messed that up, oops, meant to say this instead of that.
Problem cause #2: bad test strategy. The dev tested it before he pushed it, so no worries? Except the dev test vehicle was a "special test car" that had extra security tokens on it. So the install worked and test passed. But regular cars didn't have those certs.
So lots of obvious things to fix there. No command line mucking about to push a real production release! And test the final thing on a regular fucking car with no special dev stuff.
Tesla has multiple hardware versions, and their main panel of the original S has a v1 and v2 main console hardware. They pushed a release once that broke things in the map for the original version that caused it to use an excessive amount of cpu. I got this one, seems like it just made everything really really slow and some things failed. It took them like a 6 weeks or more because they got around to undoing the fix. I think part of that was all of them had the updated cpu so they didn't see it. It was still driveable, just degraded infotainment ui.
VW has had software updates that they would not push over the air because they took so long the 12v battery could run out before it finished, risking bricking the car (main battery couldn't charge the 12v during os update). Solution, bring your car to the dealer to do the update. Apparently also considered giving everyone a better 12v battery.
That seems like a pretty insane timeline if they're not actually driving the work for the charging infrastructure. There are way too many homes/places that would have to be retrofitted.
I think this makes long term sense. You mays well enjoy the 30-60 minutes it will take the car to charge.
Maybe an L2 charger at a park or mall is better for a longer term stop, since unlike an L3 charger, it takes an hour or two to make any decent progress.
