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Electric crate motor kit is ready for your EV project: What would you make?

Green Car Reports

The so-called crate engine has been a boon to car hobbyists, providing streamlined option for replacing the engine of a project vehicle. While crate engines are typically V-8s, United Kingdom-based Swindon Powertrain now offers an electric equivalent.

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Electric Vehicle myth busted (again) in recent Tusker data analysis

Teslarati

Tusker is a leasing company based in the United Kingdom. Nothing has been caused, at least from our data, as a result of any issue with an electric vehicle,” Tusker’s Managing Director Kit Wilson told Fleet News. Lloyds-owned Tusker recently analyzed data from its over 30,000 electric vehicle (EV) fleet.

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Using Manga to Spark Interest in STEM

Cars That Think

The IEEE Women in Engineering group decided to use manga’s popularity with young people as a way to encourage girls to consider a career in STEM fields. When I saw [IEEE WIE] was looking for stories about a young woman who was solving problems with engineering, I thought that it was right up my alley and that it would be fun,” she says.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

Cars That Think

And few talented engineers wanted to work for a company that seemed to offer little guarantee of long-term employment. But he also set his engineers to work on a product that was essentially a music player without the player. Tan did not invent flash memory, which was the brainchild of Toshiba engineer Fujio Masuoka in 1980.

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How to Get a Plug-In Hybrid

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Because of Hondas different architecture (the engine runs whenever the motor runs), aftermarket conversion of Hondas are unlikely. A new trend is conversion of internal combustion engine vehicles. Amberjac Systems www.amberjacprojects.com United Kingdom-based company has provided conversions in Europe.

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