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Tesla Cybertruck and Solar Roof come with this $12 million luxury estate

Teslarati

million, and it not only includes a Cybertruck , but also a Tesla solar roof and a Powerwall battery system , according to a report from SF Gate on Saturday. The site is also the first estate in the Clear Creek neighborhood with an in-ground swimming pool. The development is listed for $12.75 This home was designed to embrace that.

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Auto Racing Test Drives Its Own EV Future

Cars That Think

Björn Föerster, Porsche A remorseless stopwatch comparison of Formula E—the current state-of-the-art in racing EVs—vs. F1 doesn’t flatter the battery brigade. The cars feature recyclable batteries and bodies made from linen and recycled carbon fiber from last year’s cars. The 718 Cayman GT4 ePerformance.

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Chatting with other EV folks

Porsche 914 EV Conversion

Victor Tikhonov of Metric Mind and I talked about his new EVision system and how I might get involved with the embedded programming for his latest BMS (battery management system). Brad Hippert, the president of Porteon (www.porteon.net), and I chatted about production of NEVs (neighborhood electric vehicles) in Portland soon.

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Taking a Day off to see the EV Show

Porsche 914 EV Conversion

Here are some cool looking Neighborhood Electric Vehicles (NEVs). With batteries and additional items, the final cost is around $5000. They run on 48 volts and the company sells them as a kit for about $3500. Not bad for something that has a top speed of 50mph. Here is my (tongue in cheek) arch nemesis John Benson.

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Smoothing out the DMOC acceleration/braking

Porsche 914 EV Conversion

So, I took the car out into the neighborhood with the laptop hooked up and started playing around with the EEX???TorqueSlew This is very important due to the weakness of the 914 manual brakes combined with the additional 800 pounds of battery weight. TorqueSlew parameters listed in the DMOC445.

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Using the PHEV (Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle) to Transition Society Seamlessly and Profitably From Fossil Fuel to 100% Renewable Energy

Green Car Congress

The PHEV does not require the heavy, costly batteries required by other electric cars, nor does it suffer from a limited range or poor freeway performance. It is alarming to see comparisons of the Chevrolet Volt PHEV with battery electric cars when the comparison focuses only on the electric range and ignores the other important differences.

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