EVLA: An Electro-Aware Multimodal Assistant for Physically-Grounded Driving Reasoning and Control

arXiv:2606.28938v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern vision-language models (VLMs) for driving assistants typically treat vehicle dynamics as a black box, resulting in decisions that lack awareness of the vehicle's real-time electro-mechanical state. To bridge this gap, we introduce the Electro-Visual-Language Assistant (EVLA) -- a novel framework that combines multi-modal scene understanding with real-time perception of the electrified powertrain state (e.g., motor torque, battery SOC). Our a...