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Citroën ë-Berlingo Van now available to order

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The ë-Berlingo van features the same equipment as the combustion engine version (with the exception of the adaptive regulator and additional heating). In addition, a number of cities offer free or reduced-rate parking. ë-Berlingo van range. ë-Berlingo Van is available in 5 versions defined according to use.

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Ford, GM rolling out third-party developer programs for in-vehicle apps

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The Ford Developer Program for open mobile apps provides a software development kit (SDK), technical support from Ford engineers and a developer community to enable utilizing the SYNC connectivity system and AppLink application programming interface (API). Music and Entertainment. Navigation and Location.

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Radar Imaging Could Be the Key to Monitoring Climate Change

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As a child, Alberto Moreira discovered his passion for electronics from the kits for exploring science, technology, engineering, and mathematics that his father bought him every month. The kits taught him not only about electronics but also about chemistry and physics. in engineering at the Technical University of Munich.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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The gadget, roughly the size of a pack of chewing gum, held 8 megabytes of data and required no external power source, drawing power directly from a computer when connected. And few talented engineers wanted to work for a company that seemed to offer little guarantee of long-term employment. It was called the ThumbDrive.

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Reflections on Converting a 914 to an EV

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Here goes (in no particular order): Things That Went Well During the Conversion The 914 AC kit from Electro Automotive is a good one. I modified the wiring in the original 914 AC kit (as suggested by Paul Jorg) to turn on the regen when the brake lights came on instead of controlling regen by releasing the accelerator pedal.

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Spaghetti Wiring

Porsche 914 EV Conversion

After studying the AC kit diagrams and reading the motor controller documentation from Azure Dynamics, I think I understand a little better what all these relays and terminal strips are for. To allow enough room for wire connections and put the pieces in roughly the right place, I had to angle some of them.

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The First Million-Transistor Chip: the Engineers’ Story

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The chip, he predicted, would reach beyond the utilitarian line of microprocessors into equipment for the high-level engineering and scientific research communities. “We And because this very novel idea came out of the engineering group, Yu told Spectrum, he found some Intel executives hesitant. Sun Micro Systems Inc., were up to.

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