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Audi Applies Safari-Style Treatment to Q8 e-tron

The Truth About Cars

Rigs like the Porsche 911 Dakar and Lamborghini Huracan Sterrato get big grins and all the ink but jacked up machines like the Wilderness line at Subaru are pushing these builds well into the mainstream. Look for a sticker of around 120,000 Euros ($131,000 USD) in Germany when Audi opens the order books in the first quarter of 2024.

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Tips for Optimizing an EV Road Trip

Clean Fleet Report

Today, models like the Tesla Model S and Porsche Taycan have an average range of over 350 miles. Car Wi-Fi also connects to your personal devices, meaning your passengers can stream their favorite movies, read e-books and play all the games they want while on the road. Recharge stations are becoming more common, too.

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MAEAA Web Links

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Brockmans electric Porsche Porsche914 : Bill and Sharon Hoopes EVs Porsche 944 :JBs cool project and pusher trailer Renault12 : Darryl McMahons Electric Vehicles, nice EV history page. Micro :Electronics, Kits, Surplus, Online Catalog Cand H Sales Co.: PlymouthHorizon : RLewits Home Page, car was for sale but he sold it.

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

Cars That Think

By the age of 12 he had moved on to electronics, building things with parts ordered from an Allied Radio Catalog, a shortwave radio kit, and surplus relays and motors salvaged from the garbage at his father’s employer, General Railway Signal Co., He started his explorations with chemistry. in Rochester, NY. MS, 1959, Ph.D., Rochester, N.Y.

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Electric Vehicle Project Ideas | Ph.D., MTech, MSc | Electrical, Management, Mechanical & More…

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Porsche Taycan). #10 EV-related books would also be helpful. If you are directly going for an electric scooter conversion and don’t want to analyze the performance using simulation software (such as MATLAB) then you may get information about the effectiveness of regenerative braking from the conversion kit manufacturers.

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