Green Car Reports

JUNE 17, 2020

If you like DIY projects, Volkswagen has an offer that might interest you. The automaker is letting visitors to its "glass house" factory in Dresden, Germany, help build e-Golf electric cars. As of now, visitors to the factory can get hands on at up to five stations on the e-Golf assembly line, VW said in a press release Tuesday.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 20, 2021

At the time, e-bikes were still rather exotic, at least in the United States, so it seemed worth the expense and effort to build my own. In 2009, I wrote in these pages about my efforts to. add an electric motor to a bicycle —a project that involved a considerable outlay of money and many hours in a machine shop behind a lathe.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 23, 2019

You could essentially build your own. Waiting and waiting for more details about the upcoming Tesla Pickup—the “cyberpunk truck”—or concerned that it’s going to be too big when it arrives? That’s what San Francisco YouTube star Simone Giertz did, from a Tesla Model 3.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The answer is yes—and it's one you can build yourself with parts any maker can easily obtain. With all of this data we looked at building a fundamental relationship between the movement of the body (and thus the activity of the muscles burning calories) and the actual energy expended by the whole body.

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InsideEVs

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The street-legal kit car is available with a variety of engine choices, including electric.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Now, after countless versions of wiring things together, and even designing my own audio mixers, I finally have a DIY solution that works within a reasonable budget. My approach was to adapt an idea used in some pass-through systems, placing ambient microphones on the outside of sound-isolating headphones.

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InsideEVs

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

This salvage Model 3 turns out to be an awesome Overlanding car. Watch and learn how they pulled it off.

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Electrek

AUGUST 25, 2022

DIY solar power projects have always been fascinating to me. And so with a pair of solar panels and one afternoon to kill, I rigged up a simple solar-powered electric bicycle setup that is easy to build. If you’ve ever wanted to build your own solar e-bike, hopefully this guide can show you how easy it can be!

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DIY Electric Car

MARCH 22, 2021

I have posted here before with a different VW kit car build which was a 72v Wilderness EV kit in a Bentley kit body roadster. Pretty straight forward and easy build. Considering a VW Kit Car Build. At that time I was using Trojan 12v LA batteries.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 20, 2021

At the time, e-bikes were still rather exotic, at least in the United States, so it seemed worth the expense and effort to build my own. In 2009, I wrote in these pages about my efforts to. add an electric motor to a bicycle —a project that involved a considerable outlay of money and many hours in a machine shop behind a lathe.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 22, 2022

As the demand for smart home security grows, it’s pertinent that the engineers who build the products and services that keep millions of customers safe continue to experiment with new technologies that could enhance overall security and accessibility. At SimpliSafe , an award-winning home security company based in Boston, Mass.,

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 3, 2023

As he prepares to leave Spectrum to pursue more writing and assorted other projects, I asked Schneider to survey his DIY oeuvre and choose some highlights. He notes that his exoplanet detector , which he made back in 2014, still impresses him almost a decade on.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Building off the demand stimulated by this activity, a number of manufacturers have started making premium, but still relatively cheap, SDRs. Second, my roof has a line of sight to the Empire State Building, giving me the ability to choose as a reference signal any one of more than half a dozen TV channels transmitted from its spire.

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Teslarati

MARCH 31, 2023

Back in 2019, YouTuber Simone Giertz, the self-proclaimed “Queen of Sh*tty Robots,” created a one-off Tesla Model 3 build that took the automotive world by storm. Overall, Truckla will always be one of the coolest Tesla DIY projects to date, so any updates about the vehicle are always appreciated.

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DIY Electric Car

SEPTEMBER 3, 2011

So with a little wire, some basic skills and one stupidly expensive receptacle, you can build a J1772 to NEMA L6-30R adapter for yourself. I took the car to the nearest charging station and tested it at full power today. It says I pulled 3.51 Pin 4 -->| --[1kw] - Pin 3 (Ground). Drive however you want, but charge safe!

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 15, 2012

Over the past year, electric car charging stations have gone from being overpriced products with extortionate installation costs to items you can pick up at your local hardware store and install yourself. But if driving to your local Lowes and installing a pre-built unit seems a little easy or still too expensive, there’s now a third option.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Compatibility with the Cybertruck’s battery for accessory add-ons and DIY builds. Air-powered actuators that open or break down the camper with the flip of a switch. A Murphy-style bed that sleeps two and flips up for 8 feet of standing room.

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CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 11, 2022

In a recent article, I lamented the competing pressures of efficiency and luxury in campers. I wanted something small, light, and efficient that my Bolt EUV could tow, because nothing spoils a fun trip like going into debt (both financial and to my kids for ruining the planet) to cover the fuel bill. But, living […].

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 13, 2024

For power, I guess you run your throttle back to the new controller, though that’s another reason just to start this build from scratch. I feel like any self-respecting DIY electric snowmobile should cost significantly more than this. That’s kind of where I’m sitting with this DIY snowmobile kit.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Searching the interwebs, I found no shortage of leads about how to build a DIY seismometer. The problem is that the DIY seismometer designs I was seeing were large and ungainly contraptions. I wondered whether I could build a more compact one using a geophone. I recently decided that I needed to give this a try.

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Cars That Think

JULY 30, 2021

It's also possible to build your own MHD device for cheap , if you know what you're doing. But for the vast majority of people, a DIY approach isn't practical, and buying something that works out of the box and comes with a friendly app seems like it would be worth a cost premium.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

That successful mission in August 2018 was a huge step toward our goal of sending an amateur astronaut to the edge of space aboard one of our DIY rockets. We're now building the. We'll soon commence building a full-scale BPM100 engine, which will ultimately incorporate a new guidance system for the rocket. Carsten Olsen.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 23, 2024

With one of these, I could build my own clock for around US $200—and one that’s about 200 times as accurate as a typical quartz clock. I hope you’ll build one of your own—it takes just a few hours of soldering, and I think you’ll agree it would be time well spent. seconds in a year.

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DIY Electric Car

JUNE 18, 2008

Last week I said that this blog would be part journal, part guide to the conversion process but I've decided to separate those two categories by having a build thread for the bike with pretty pictures and having this blog as a sort of step by step guide.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 7, 2024

The success of a battery swapping network depends on a couple of key considerations, such as accurate network planning in line with evolving demand density, and the up-front investment needed to build a dense network and achieve optimal utilisation to recover the investment. Here they are.

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All Cars Electric

JULY 19, 2011

But what you may not know is that as of August DIY Enthusiasts in selected areas will.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 22, 2022

So when I decided to build a cheap DIY scintillating gamma spectrometer, it was the natural choice—although I didn’t realize I’d find myself navigating around teething problems of the sort that often affect a first-generation integrated circuit. I wanted to see if I could make it easy and affordable to build a spectrometer.

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DIY Electric Car

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

Hello DIY'ers, The Exploratorium in the San Francisco is looking for someone who'd like to show off their DIY Electric Car for one night on October 7th as part of our monthly After Dark series. As it turns out, the Exploratorium was born out of the DIY spirit. I'm looking forward to meeting the members of the DIY Electric Car Forum.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

MicroAPRS , which is an open-source and Arduino-compatible firmware package for DIY packet radio modems. I thought about building it around a Raspberry Pi. NEO 6M-based GPS receiver that is popular with hobbyists for things such as DIY drones. First, I would need to nail down the hardware and software I was going to use.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

And I’d already built my own speakers, so why not build it myself? November 2018 Hands On article, “DIY Pro Audio ” in IEEE Spectrum , and it convinced me it was possible, although I wanted to go beyond just a power amplifier to something more like my lamented Sansui. Researching home-brew audio sites, I came across Glenn Zorpette’s.

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Electric Cars are for Girls

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Well, this is more a suggestion, rather than a question, on how to build your own hybrid electric car. The average 4cyl car motor weighs about 700 lbs,

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Cars That Think

APRIL 26, 2022

The notion of being led to a hidden object by virtue of the magnetic anomaly it creates must have really intrigued my 9-year-old self, because a decade after seeing that movie I decided to build a circuit to measure the strength of Earth’s magnetic field. This article appears in the May 2022 print issue as “A DIY Magnetometer.”.

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DIY Electric Car

DECEMBER 17, 2011

I collected the car last weekend and, having not seen it in the flesh, i was very pleased with what I'd bought. It's a MK2 golf with 9'' ADC motor fitted, battery tray up front and one sunk into the rear where the fuel tank was. It needs a reasonable amount of attention but is a greater starter project for my first EV.

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Clean Fleet Report

JULY 19, 2023

Furthermore, regular oil changes assist in maintaining the cleanliness of the engine by preventing the build-up of dirt and particles. DIY Car Maintenance Doing simple maintenance tasks on your own can save you money and help you better understand your vehicle. Replacing Windshield Wipers.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 5, 2022

It’s a little scary to recall that when iRobot last released an update to the Create DIY/educational robot platform, the calendar read 2014 (!). And so, with the Create 3, we’re building on that history of enabling access to the ROS community. The original Create helped enable the TurtleBot 1, which drove adoption of ROS.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Be the tiny DIY robot cat you’ve always wanted to be! Paper ] Building tiny giant robots requires lots of little fixtures, and I’m here for it. It’s hoped the bot, which can travel up to 20 kilometres an hour and carry 50 kilograms, has the potential to serve as a member of search-and-rescue teams in the future. at the link below.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2009

Building materials retailer Grange Builders Providers, of Baldoyle, Dublin, has purchased a Smith Newton truck for deliveries of building and DIY products. The 10-tonne truck is the largest pure electric vehicle on the road in Ireland.

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