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This cheap electric half-car/half-truck looks like a botched Alibaba El Camino

Baua Electric

It’s nice to see that the little truck is even available in a wide range of colors, allowing you to customize it to your own personality. The panda comes pre-installed on all of them though, so I hope you have a panda personality as well. But hey, we can all still enjoy this one from afar, can’t we?

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Forget JPEG, How Would a Person Compress a Picture?

Cars That Think

We live in an age in which it's cheap to take photos but will eventually be costly to store them en masse, as backup services set limits and begin charging for overages. In our tests, the describers used text-based messaging and, crucially, could include links to any publicly available image on the internet.

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IoT-ize Your Old Gadgets With a Mechanical Hijacking Device

Cars That Think

Just about every device you own is probably available with Internet connectivity. KAIST/Korea Polytechnic University The paper doesn't directly address the cost of the MHD, and with three motors and some other electronics in it, it's not likely to be super cheap. Whether or not every device you own actually.

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Tesla Model 3s from Hertz are going for as low as $14,000

Baua Electric

Hertz is starting to sell some of its Tesla Model 3s and they are going for pretty cheap – as low as $14,000 with the used EV tax credit. The company sells its older rental vehicles directly on its own website and there were some nice deals available: Some vehicles were selling for as low as $17,700. They do tend to get pretty beat up.

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

Teslarati

Despite their age and limited availability outside of Japan, their 4×4 capabilities and Volkswagen Van aesthetics have garnered them a cult following. The vehicle starts at $136,600, and a preorder of the van isn’t cheap either at $1,000. The Toyota Hiace is THE small take-you-anywhere van. What do you think of the article?

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Junkyard Find: 1978 Chrysler LeBaron Coupe

The Truth About Cars

This generation of LeBaron was sold for the 1977 through 1981 model years, and it was available as a coupe, sedan and wagon. The two-door was a credibly rakish personal luxury coupe for its time, and probably cannibalized some sales from the Cordoba. This one has the optional Cortez cloth-and-vinyl seat upholstery.

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You can power your home for 21 days with a Chevy Silverado EV and GM’s new bidirectional charger

Baua Electric

At $7,299, the bundle doesn’t come cheap. The first of GM’s EVs to be compatible with the GM Energy home product suite is the 2024 Chevrolet Silverado EV First-Edition RST , which is expected to be available to customers this summer. Customers can purchase GM Energy’s V2H bundle through current GM mobile brand apps.