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From Cleaning Offices to Designing EV Charging Stations

Cars That Think

Bekerytė moved from her native Lithuania to Norway in 2010 to take advantage of the country’s free university tuition, but first she had to find a way to support herself. Today she works as a hardware engineer at Zaptec , which makes electric-vehicle charging stations and is also based in Stavanger. It wasn’t easy. she says. “So

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Don’t stop the EV music

Electric Auto Association

The late Jack Rickard of EVTV , a long time member of Gateway Electric Vehicle Association (GEVA), is something of a legend at the St. His goal was to get 100,000 or more DIY conversion projects going,” agreed GEVA member Daniel Howard. Louis, Missouri chapter. His efforts lead to tremendous overall adoption and success.”

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Search for Buried Treasure With This DIY Magnetometer

Cars That Think

commercialized around 2010. I scrounged a 6-millimeter-diameter plastic tube, which I put into the chuck of an electric drill and wound a few hundred turns of 32-gauge magnet wire around it. This article appears in the May 2022 print issue as “A DIY Magnetometer.”. And that was the only hard-to-obtain item I needed.

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EV advocacy, provincial style 

Electric Auto Association

Vancouver Electric Vehicle Association (VEVA) has been very involved in supporting legislation promoting sustainability on both the provincial and federal government levels, largely through its very active government relations committee. Our electricity provider is BC Hydro and we watch them very closely.” “We Again like U.S.

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Converting a Formula SAE Car to Electric Power

DIY Electric Car

It is to convert the 2010 built car to electric power! I am mechanical engineering student at the University of Washington and I thought I share my senior design project that a couple of other students and I are working on for the UW Formula SAE Team. The design phase has gone on for a while now and is nearly complete!

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Looking to get in a hybrid for cheap? Used Toyota Prius 1.5 HSD 2004-2009 Review

Green Car Congress

Having enough electric charge to last a 5-15 minute in silence in a traffic jam. Power steering is electric and as a result we don’t need to check the power steering oil level as there isn’t any. During reversing, the Prius is powered only by the electric motor. How regularly the EV button is used to maximise electric range.

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Success!!! The Ban on EV Conversions in Ontario, Canada is Over!!!

DIY Electric Car

Ontario's Ban on Electric Cars. Yesterday (June 7, 2010), Electric Mobility Canada sent out an e-mail advising its Ontario members that MTO has lifted the ban, and has implemented an interim solution for the licensing of electric vehicle conversions. Powered exclusively by an electric battery. ? Thank you From.