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Is it Possible to Retrofit an Old Car with an EV Drivetrain?

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It’s also a lot less wasteful to electrify an old clunker and give it years and years of additional use rather than buying a brand-new EV, which requires the extraction and use of precious resources and lots of new carbon emissions to build and ship out. See more at E Magazine. Send questions to: question@earthtalk.org.

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The Soviet-Era, Z80-based Galaksija Dared to Be Different

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As a retrocomputing nerd, when I saw early last year that the Galaksija was being reissued as a complete kit through Crowd Supply , I placed an order on general principles. Figuring it was plain sailing from there, I canceled my Crowd Supply kit order and set off on my own. and 6.8.

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MAEAA Web Links

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Micro :Electronics, Kits, Surplus, Online Catalog Cand H Sales Co.: Home PowerMagazine : While not an EV magazine, they do have a regular EV section. Nuts& Volts Magazine : For the serious gadgeteer. So You want To Build an ElectricCar: Where to begin. Nice folks. Battery chargers and DC/DC converters.

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A 100 m.p.g. truck? A Bright IDEA | Freep.com | Detroit Free Press

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For years now, inventors and sellers of electric car conversion kits have been blasting traditional automakers for not providing the 100 m.p.g. Three years ago, the magazine Popular Mechanics even wrote an article prodding the auto industry for not building the 100 m.p.g. • MORE: "How to Build a 100 Mile-Per-Gallon Car.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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The 20 PARC employees were housed in a small, rented building, “with rented chairs, rented desks, a telephone with four buttons on it, and no receptionist,” recalled David Thornburg, who joined PARC’s General Science Laboratory fresh out of graduate school in 1971. MAXC set a pattern for PARC: building its own hardware.

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

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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., This model-building can get very basic. He started his explorations with chemistry.

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The First Million-Transistor Chip: the Engineers’ Story

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For several years, Yu had been intrigued by Kohn’s zeal for building a superfast RISC microprocessor, but he felt Intel lacked the resources to invest in such a project. Building the SRAMs using circuit-design techniques borrowed from dynamic RAM technology cut that to about 0.5 The final decision rested with Albert Y.C.

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