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Uno Minda all lit up with more content per car and focus on electric vehicles – ET Auto

Baua Electric

Uno Minda , a large-cap supplier of lighting, switching, acoustics and seating solutions to global automobile companies, has outpaced the industry growth aided by improving content per vehicle through premium offerings , introducing new products and expanding the electric vehicles ( EVs ) segment. At Monday’s closing of INR 877.5,

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Volvo Trucks introduces Volvo Active Driver Assist; combining radar and camera for emergency braking

Green Car Congress

Volvo currently is the only OEM to fully integrate the system into its Driver Information Display, so no additional display units or prep kits are needed. Video is captured for later download. Volvo made the announcement during the American Trucking Associations (ATA) Management Conference & Exhibition in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Hydrogen bicycles, new e-scooters, & more! The coolest stuff I saw at Micromobility Europe 2024

Baua Electric

I’m going to run through these in no particular order, other than how they ended up being downloaded on my hard drive. FLIT This British folding e-bike makes me think that this is what Brompton should have built, instead of making something that looks like an e-bike conversion kit stuffed into a Brompton.

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Measuring State-of-Charge on Lead Acid Batteries

Porsche 914 EV Conversion

The 914 AC kit uses 8V golf cart batteries and I'm wondering if different batteries like Hawkers or Optima Yellow-Top batteries would be better. This week is packed, so I might get to hooking up the back-up light wiring on the EV if there's time on Friday. Both US-Battery and Trojan have 8-volt golf-cart batteries.

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

Cars That Think

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.

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10 Gifts For Retrocomputing Fans

Cars That Think

One of the best reproductions of the Elf is Lee Hart's US $89 Membership Card kit , which compresses an Elf into two circuit boards that fit into a Altoids tin. Chris Davis makes a terrific replica kit, the Altair-Duino. I've have an early version of this kit running in my office at Spectrum and it never fails to catch a visitor's eye.

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Tigor EV Highway Drive: Bengaluru - Coimbatore - Ooty - Mysuru

Plug In India

Also, there is a blue LED that lights up below the appropriate gear as soon as it is selected. You get good feedback when you change gears - and a bright blue LED lights up under the P/N/R texts on the dash when you select that gear. We had to download the app and put Rs 1000 in the wallet, even though we had to just charge 10 kWh.