It seems like a kind of niche field with a lot of pitfalls and poor availability of information but it seems like it's possible to do if you buy some budget key programmer, as long as you can figure out which encryption type the immobiliser uses. There should be an FCC id on the key fob somewhere, then it should be possible to figure out which type of encryption it uses, there's usually some codename like ID46 or something like that.

From that article it seems like it was easier to do for that car than it is for most new-ish cars.

These are 2 of the programmers i'm looking at getting, also expensive but worth IMO, if you can get the right one, make a couple of spares for yourself, family, friends etc, then sell it on or maybe even run a (less extortionate, hopefully) side hustle yourself.

https://www.xhorsevvdi.com/wholesale/vvdi-key-tester.html https://store.autel.com/products/autel-maxiim-km100

My own theory is that he sees himself as a kind of Hari Seldon figure (can't remember for sure but think I saw him wearing a "Foundation" t-shirt at some event). Or someone like Alan Saul from Neal Asher's "Owner" series.

This delusional belief, along with typical emotional/ego issues, may be what gives him that righteous fervour for "making life interplanetary" or whatever.

I just had the browser window maximized while I was away from it for a while. This would make a nice active desktop, though I don't know enough about the software stacks involved with that to know whether it's possible.

I had a go at getting chatgpt to classify them by pasting in the link/title pairs from the onetab export tool and asking it to group them into similar topics. It was promising but didn't really scale due to the limit on message size. I'm sure a tweaked/retrained AI would do a pretty good job, not sure if there's tools out there already to do this.

It's irritating that many of the people who resist EV adoption because "it won't work, there's not enough chargers" seem to be more amenable to the idea of hydrogen, despite all the extra infrastructure/energy needed for production, cooling and transport, when electrical infrastructure is already ubiquitous. I don't know if it's that people are more conditioned to the idea of putting liquid in a tank to power a vehicle than plugging it in.

Nothing against hydrogen per se, I'm sure it'll have its uses, but electricity has a much shorter lead time to take up the current energy deficit from cutting fossil fuels.

Coal vs. nuclear is the other major head-scratcher, but I guess that's down to the green movement's own lack of awareness of the severity of global warming back when they were campaigning against nuclear.

Anything that gets petrol-heads on board with EVs is good IMO, hope they don't get burned for it.