TE
TechEcho
Home24h TopNewestBestAskShowJobs
GitHubTwitter
Home

TechEcho

A tech news platform built with Next.js, providing global tech news and discussions.

GitHubTwitter

Home

HomeNewestBestAskShowJobs

Resources

HackerNews APIOriginal HackerNewsNext.js

© 2025 TechEcho. All rights reserved.

Ask HN: What kind of data would be interesting coming from our expedition car?

4 pointsby mkeespietover 2 years ago
Good day all!<p>Together with my girlfriend I’m traveling with an electric car from the Netherlands to South Africa and back, charging the car with solar panels we have in the car (11kWp). We are currently in Morocco.<p>With the help of 3 partners we are getting an enormous amount of data out of the car via the OBD port of the car pushed to different servers. If you can think of it, it is probably an paramater that is measured, liked G-force meter, if we buckled up, cellular reception of the car and so on. What more data would be nice, beside the obvious like we already have on our website (SOC, altitude, speed and soon windspeed (we have an anemometer on the car) and direction), to show on our website? And what combination of data would be interesting to analyse?<p>At the moment one of our partners is making this dashboard with the help of students. We are allowed, to a certain extent, to share datasets, if you would be interested to play with it.<p>Soon we will share more facts and figures about our expedition after the dashboard is set.<p>Website: www.4x4electric.com&#x2F;dashboard<p>Thanks!<p>Maarten

2 comments

aynycover 2 years ago
I rather see the pictures and videos of the trip (local people, etc) than how a car is working. My brother rode a piece of shit bike from London to Asia. His photos are breathtaking. Me, still researching lightest, bestest touring bike on youtube so I can go food shopping at trader joe that&#x27;s 4 miles from my house.
herendin2over 2 years ago
It&#x27;s possible that the most useful data you can provide are your human observations, especially those about people you encounter. Maybe most of the statistical and numerical measurements that you have suggested might not be really useful, because there could already be good sources for them