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The Electric Leaf’s True Believers Won’t Leave Well Enough Alone
- StavrosK 15y agoCan anyone parse that title? I'm failing.
- 0x12 15y agoElectric leaf -> Nissans' new electric car leaving well enough alone -> keep your hands of Rough translation: Nissan Leaf owners open up the hood to see if they can improve performance and/or charge time or other stuff. An EV can be hacked on by electronics types in much the same way that a regular car used to be the domain of gearheads. Regular cars now need knowledge from both domains but EVs are much more accessible to EE types and other people with knowledge about the way electrons make our lives easier.
- StavrosK 15y agoAh, it's an idiom, thanks. I couldn't figure out the subject of "leave".
- forgottenpaswrd 15y agoAgreed. It seems like a world war code: -"The cat is in the celing" I repeat "The cat is in the ceiling", over and out! -"The electric Leaf true believers won't leave well enough alone, over an out".
- keeperofdakeys 15y ago"The Electric Leaf’s True Believers" - people who really like the Nissan Leaf car. "Won’t Leave Well Enough Alone" - tinkering with things that 'already work', or 'shouldn't be touched'. So we could probably change it to "Nissan Leaf Fans Hacking Their Cars" for HN, but this is probably not good a media outlet.
- keeperofdakeys 15y agoSince the car has a lithium-ion battery, it really doesn't deal well with being depleted for medium periods of time. The gauge is probably done like that to lengthen the life of the battery.