Automobiles
What makes a modern car work, explained from the standards: the software-defined vehicle, and how an electric one talks to its charger.
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01 / 02Architecture · Networks · Standards
The software-defined vehicle
A car as a computer you update: how it is wired, layered and regulated.
How a car turns from a few dozen boxes of fixed-function electronics into a computer you update: the architecture, the software stack, the networks, the services, the over-the-air pipeline and the standards that govern all of it.
- Electrical and electronic architecture
- The software stack
- The network ladder
- Signals versus services
- The over-the-air pipeline
- The standards map
02 / 02From the standards · Five protocols
EV charging
How a car and a charger talk, signal by signal.
How an electric vehicle and a charger agree on what to do, drawn from the standards: the circuits, the signals on the wire and the messages they exchange.
Open EV charging