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Junkyard Find: 2007 Mini Cooper S

The Truth About Cars

There were convertible versions of the Cooper and Cooper S available as well. By about the middle 2010s, these cars began appearing en masse in the boneyards I frequent , so many that I thought about doing a Minipocalypse article on the subject (along the lines of the Subiepocalypse and 240calypse pieces I wrote for this publication).

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New nanolithia cathodes may address technical drawbacks of Li-air batteries; scalable, cheap and safer Li-air battery system

Green Car Congress

This approach helps overcome another issue with lithium-air batteries: As the chemical reaction involved in charging and discharging converts oxygen between gaseous and solid forms, the material goes through huge volume changes that can disrupt electrical conduction paths in the structure, severely limiting its lifetime. 2016.111.

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Potential Motors unveils the Adventure 1: an all-electric Overlanding van

Teslarati

The vehicle starts at $136,600, and a preorder of the van isn’t cheap either at $1,000. Due to the vehicle’s limited production run (total number of units is unspecified) and its sky-high price tag, it is still a tough sell over a $50,000 mint condition and overland converted old Toyota van.

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A Cheap Balancer and Transmission Issues

Porsche 914 EV Conversion

The analog engineers at work are still designing the current/voltage limited step-down buck converter so that will be coming when I get their feedback. I'm going to try to replace the sychro rings myself based on the Pelican Parts article and, if I screw up, I'll take the whole thing back to A & P to put it back together.

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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

Cars That Think

Then, as electricity entrepreneurs expanded power generation and transmission capacity, they faced the new problem of what to do with all the cheap off-peak, nighttime electricity they could now produce. AC Propulsion cofounder Wally Rippel converted a Volkswagen microbus into an electric vehicle while he was still a student at Caltech.

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Univ. Houston, Caltech team develops new earth-abundant, cost-effective catalyst for water-splitting

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In an open-access paper in the journal Nature Communications, the team said that their advance provides a different pathway to design cheap, efficient and sizable hydrogen-evolving electrode by simultaneously tuning the number of catalytic edge sites, porosity, heteroatom doping and electrical conductivity.

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Tech: The Whats and Hows of MAP Sensors

Clean Fleet Report

Tech: The Whats and Hows of MAP Sensors A Critical Component for Engine Efficiency This article may contain affiliate links. Replacements are easy and cheap to find, costing roughly the same or less than a related MAF sensor. Automotive sensors play a vital role in the everyday functioning of your car.

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