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Renault partners with R-FIT to launch electric retrofit kits in France

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Renault is launching electric retrofit kits in France in partnership with R-FIT. These kits can be installed on the popular Renault 4, Renault 5 and first generation Twingo. The Renault 5 electric retrofit kit will go on sale in France in September 2023 while the kit for the Twingo will be made available at a later date.

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Top 5 electric vehicles books you must read

Electric Vehicles India

It also covers the topics such as batteries, control systems and charging in detail and many other such topics are covered. Build Your Own Electric Motorcycle (Tab Green Guru Guides). The book includes ownership advantages, basic EV operation, subsystems, components, basic EV operation, project vehicles, and conversion kits.

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Alaska EV company seeking crowd-funding for low-volume production AWD electric roadster

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Ethos Electric Vehicles, a small, Alaska-based company building custom electric motorcycles and automobiles, has launched a $100,000 crowd-funding campaign for reworking an existing internal combustion engine kit car—the Graber Cars’ La Bala —into a low-volume production, all-wheel drive (AWD) electric roadster.

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CA Energy Commission awarding Wrightspeed $5.789M grant for retrofit range-extended electric powertrain for medium-duty commercial vehicles

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CEC also awarded $1,815,123 to Zero Motorcycles; $10 million to Tesla Motors; and $2,230,595 to Quallion LLC out of the same program. High-power plug-in battery system with active cooling. Wrightspeed made its first conversion kit for the Isuzu NPR. All four awardees received the amounts they requested.

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How I turned a shipping container into a solar off-grid charging station with A/C

Baua Electric

Between my electric bikes, e-motorcycles, e-ATVs, electric tractors, and a few other things I’m probably forgetting, having a weather-sealed, solar-powered off-grid charging shed would be a big benefit. From there I had to get the wiring set up to feed my batteries. Here is where the beauty of the pre-built system really shows.

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BMW revealed 2 Series Active Tourer PHEV

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kWh net) battery pack and according to the WLTP test cycle, it can provide a range of up to 50 miles (80 km) of pure-electric range. The sport features 17-inch alloy wheels, sports seats with cloth upholstery, LED headlights, a reversing camera and another kit. The BMW new electric motorcycle is called as BMW CE-04 electric scooter.

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CV conversion from ICE to EV is pivot of Kalyani Group’s 4-pronged green growth strategy – ET Auto

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They plan to ramp up the Group’s three business verticals – electric motorcycles (Tork Motors), power electronics, and ICE to EV conversion of commercial vehicles, and to kick off a new traction drives business vertical. He wants to make it easy with the Kalyani repowering kits. All of them have come under the Group inorganically.