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Looking to get in a hybrid for cheap? Used Toyota Prius 1.5 HSD 2004-2009 Review

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I knew I wanted something for her that was cheap to maintain, had a reliable automatic transmission, came with cruise control, AC. We only drove ’normal’ ICE (Internal Combustion Engine) cars before but those gave me a feeling of always being in a hurry. The gasoline engine only runs in reversing to power the batteries.

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Cheap mini e-truck? Flying electric boats? Top 5 wildest non-car EVs I tested this year

Electrek

Part of that is due to the way electric drivetrains help break the mold of aging design constraints, but it’s also due to a new wave of forward-thinking engineers boldly pushing products in new and exciting directions. The post Cheap mini e-truck? Flying electric boats?

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Chalmers team identifies two main challenges for bio-hydrocarbon fuel production from cheap sources

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Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have identified two main challenges for renewable biofuel production from cheap sources: lowering the cost of developing microbial cell factories; and establishing more efficient methods for hydrolysis of biomass to sugars for fermentation.

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Ranger Raptor embodies Ford means of high-margin, cheap variants

Baua Electric

” The post Ranger Raptor embodies Ford means of high-margin, cheap variants appeared first on Bauaelectric Auto News. “A lot of our enthusiast products create a halo for the rest of the brand.”

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Abandoned History: Oldsmobile's Guidestar Navigation System and Other Cartography (Part V)

The Truth About Cars

By the Eighties EDS was even larger, and didn’t come cheap. The other fork, he thought, was more advanced engineering. GM paid part of the $5.2B Proposed and implemented in 1967, Perot invented the business model which today is called outsourcing. An instant success, EDS became a very valuable company. Smith forked over $2.5

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A DIY E-bike Conversion on the Cheap

Cars That Think

While it would have been nice to engineer some sort of spring-driven mechanism to control how forcefully the motor pushes against the tire, I kept things simple: I just deflated the tire somewhat, bolted the motor solidly in place, and reinflated the tire. The most challenging part of this project was figuring out how to configure the ESC.

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Univ of Washington team working to make poplar coppice viable cheap, high-volume biofuel feedstock

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Their results, published recently in two papers—one in ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering and the other in Biotechnology for Biofuels (open access)—point to a promising future for using poplar coppice for biofuel. That’s the problem. Chang Dou, Wilian F. Marcondes, Jessica E.