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Stuff We Use: External Speakers

The Truth About Cars

We’ve used this speaker and it is decently robust with good sound, clearly designed to weather a few knocks and scrapes in typical Jeep environments whilst also able to provide a bit of juice to devices via its USB port. That unique shape allows its drivers to be placed back-to-back to actually produce a hearty amount of audio energy.

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We’re the New Renewables

Cars That Think

JUICE BOX For many years, environmentalists have looked forward to the coming of net-zero-energy buildings. Much effort was devoted to making lighting, heating, and cooling more efficient so buildings consumed less energy. Enjoy the latest images, and if you have suggestions, leave a comment below. household).

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How To Survive the Winter Driving an EV

Clean Fleet Report

Even a policy with cheap rates can provide some coverage in case of an emergency. By doing this, less energy will be used because it takes more energy to raise the temperature than maintain it. This will help make sure you don’t run out of juice and have to worry about being stranded on the side of the road.

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Tortillas and Ethanol

Plugs and Cars

And without cheap oil, corn would not have become Big Corn, the big agricultural combines (principally ADM and Cargill). They have had a tough time dealing with the influx of cheap American corn since NAFTA. Ethanol may be a political, economic and energy boondoggle, but that doesn't mean it ain't got juice.

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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

Cars That Think

Then, as electricity entrepreneurs expanded power generation and transmission capacity, they faced the new problem of what to do with all the cheap off-peak, nighttime electricity they could now produce. The need for large-scale electrochemical energy storage as a grid-stabilizing source of demand disappeared.

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The Workplace Charging Challenge

Plugs and Cars

The Department of Energy “ has launched the Workplace Charging Challenge, with a goal of achieving a tenfold increase in the number of U.S. Many workplaces could become EV friendly on the cheap, repurposing existing 120V outlets in parking areas and expressly allowing PEV charging. It’s also grid-friendly. They should be encouraged.

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We drove the 500hp electric Arc Sport and holy heck, this thing rips

Baua Electric

This is by no means cheap, but is relatively competitive with the higher-end wake boats from companies like Nautique or Malibu (Nautique has its own electric wake boat , which starts at $312k). So that higher-speed trip used ~5x as much energy as the low-speed one did (there may have been differences in wind/waves as well).

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