[remy_martian]

Messaging & protocols for modules should be available documentation and covered under right to repair. Yesterday's SPDT power window switch to move glass is today's CAN bus command set to do it.

 

[remy_martian]

The problem is that you need a working car for generating most of those messages. Many conversions start out de-ICED or are bought as DOA.

A "modern" car that runs has no real point for being converted, imo.

 

[remy_martian]

All you see in SE Asia are minitrucks. I think it's one reason Toyota is sitting on their hands, as they seem to pretty much own that market - many are turbodiesels and the culture is indifferent to breathing really bad air (Bangkok has some of the highest PM2.5 levels on the planet and Thailand and India (technically S. Asia) both are among the few countries that continue to build new coal plants).

Both Ford and GM are said to be working on a small EV truck, so we may see one in two or three years. Whether there's a right hand drive remains to be seen -- the Aussies seem to have been abandoned by the auto industry, despite making some cool car platforms out of GM Holden and Ford.